On 11 May 2005 03:13:28 GMT, Russ Button wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I suspect that the future lies in whatever format movie soundtracks
will use. High-end two-channel audio is dying - some would say that
any noticeable twitching is merely rigor mortis.

I've been saying that for some time. Still it is obviously technically
possible to produce media that support higher sampling rates than
the standard used in conventional CDs. I thought that's what was
happening win DVD-Audio and SACD. I'm wrong about that?

No, but the market doesn't care, and that's what really counts.

Bummer.

I have no interest in surround sound. All I want is better two
channel if I can get it.

16/44, 24/96, 24/192 and DSD listening test results suggest that CD is
as good as you'll ever hear.

Is it true that as Steven Sullivan noted,
that SACD is just about putting more tracks on the media for
surround sound?

That's it's only *audible* advantage, as with DVD-A. But used
properly, multichannel sound is definitely an improvement in fidelity.

And this is at the same sampling rate as
conventional CD.

Essentially, although with SACD it's a sliding scale that gets a lot
worse as frequency rises.

Geez. We should pay more for more of the
same? Bleah...

Hey, it worked for LP, with DMM and half-speed mastering, it worked
for CD with 'digital remastering' and gold CDs, why shouldn't it keep
working? How many versions of DSOTM do *you* have? :-)
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering