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>>Are you listening to UHJ straight? B-format with the WXY information could be extracted from the UHJ format. Not the most optimal thing, but what else is there that could do 10 channels from a 2ch carrier? I heard many UHJ encoded discs (mostly from Nimbus) and don't notice the phasey sound...

>>As far as Ambisonic for large space and varied audience seating, it could be implemented with the deployment of enough channels in the XY axis so that adjacent speakers are at the limit of perceivable difference in horizontal imaging. >And even with std Ambisonic, it is still 1000x better in...

>>.The difference between a discrete channel and a matrix channel mainly concerns separation. Discrete channels, as in Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 or DTS ES Discrete 6.1 have separations of around 70-80db. Matrix derived channels (such as all the channels in old Pro-Logic, or Dolby EX's...

Hate to burst everyones bubble, but the Queen disc is NOT, repeat, NOT DTS-ES encoded... the decoders are simply confusing the dts 96/24 Extension stream with the ES Discrete stream... both 96/24 and ES use the same DTS+Extension bitstream. My DTS-ES receiver does not falsely activate... and the...

>>On another note... anyone here have VHD? I still have a lot of karaoke, concerts and movies on VHD! I have 100? or so VHD titles. Too bad my old 1983 Toshiba VHD player just died....

>>Harley is no more guilty of that then anyone else in the audio press.

>>I would like to read a "basic" digital audio book as the subject has me intrigued.Is there anything that you can recommend?

>>Could you be more specific?

>>I've never read anywhere that THX said that the THX MusicMode was more accurate and was what the producer intended. >I think most people that have an Ultra2 system with a 7.1 setup will agree with me.

>>...improvement my ears can hear to the reconstuction (albeit artificial and not necessarily accurate) of harmonics which the 16/44.1 format had stripped from the music. >I wonder how much of a grasp some technical folks have of audio matters.

>>THX has: -Watered down and stopped policing theatrical installations that wear the THX badge, long ago. They claim otherwise. Anyone who knows good theatrical sound from bad can tell you they are full of crap. >> Fully agreed! And they allow a theaters own tech's to re-certify an...

>>Still, as Justin notes, it's an option.

Up-sampling is NO different than Over-sampling - no different at all! The ONLY difference is the amount of high-frequency "junk" allowed out to the speakers. You can't create "real" information if it wasn't there to begin with. The whole "joy" over up-sampling only shows what a truly poor grasp...

Circle Surround is a simple gain-riding scheme and not a true matrix multiplier... in other words, to 'steer' sounds among channels it simply raises and lowers thier volumes. This technique was abandoned early the quadraphonic era as it cannot recreate a stable soundfield... true, CS is more...

>>I'm also finding it depends on the source material quite a bit.

>>As far as the MusicMode or ANY of this stuff being what the original people had in mind... who the heck knows?

>>The Ultra2 spec is a particular program for decoding the ENCODED DATA stream on the DVD's.

I find the THX Ultra 2 certification for music to be odd... THX is all about the "orignal intent", etc... well, expanding a 6-channel DVD-Audio to 7.1 channels is NOT what the orignal mixer had in mind! To me, it looks like THX simply wanted something new to "sell." The fact that they came out...

I have to say that with MP Matrix encoded films, I prefer DTS Neo 6:Cinema to PL-II... While PL-II is a big improvement over PL, I think Neo 6 really does make the film much more "discrete" sounding and is fantastic at generating 3 rear channels... one big advantage Neo 6 has over PL-II is that...