200e

The thing with DVD-A is that if your player has the
discreet outputs, you can assign however wish, no
compression, full bandwidth on 6 channels.
SACD is yet another direction, but Diskwelder Bronze
is so affordable!
--- Richard Lainhart <rlainhart@otownmedia.com> wrote:

> I've been thinking about this too - I play and
> record in quad (to my  
> MacBook running MOTU AudioDesk), and it really does
> sound better than  
> stereo. But I'm not sure that encoding to a surround
> format is ideal,  
> given that many listeners still don't have surround
> playback  
> environments.
> 
> 
> 
> One thing I've considered is live air recording in
> the quad  
> environment with a binaural HRTF mic, like this
> Neumann:
> 
> 
> 
>
http://www.neumann.com/?lang=en&id=current_microphones&cid=ku100_description
> 
> 
> 
> The KU 100 is optimized so that playback of binaural
> content on stereo  
> speakers provides an acceptable stereo field, but
> still records in  
> full binaural for a 3-D listening experience through
> headphones. Given  
> that many more people listen to music through
> headphones than surround  
> speakers, it makes some sense to me to present quad
> music this way.  
> And if you've never heard a true binaural recording,
> you owe it to  
> yourself to download some and listen to them with
> good headphones -  
> the realism and dimensionality of the auditory space
> is uncanny.
> 
> 
> 
> At any rate, I'm going to see if I can rent one and
> try it out.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > how do you record 4 channel audio from your
> 227/227e for playback
> > outside of your studio? do any of you convert to
> dolby digital/dts?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Lainhart
> http://www.otownmedia.com
> http://www.downloadplatform.com/richard_lainhart
> http://www.airglowmusic.com
> 
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