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Missing center channel
Most of my DVDs and SACDs have all five channels but some don't have a
center channel. The London Symphony Live SACDs that I have are minus a center channel. A new DVD ("Libera" on EMI) is missing the center channel even though the menu says 5.1 surround and my player display mode says 3/2.1. Is it common for some discs to not have a center channel? ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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Missing center channel
---MIKE--- wrote:
Most of my DVDs and SACDs have all five channels but some don't have a center channel. The London Symphony Live SACDs that I have are minus a center channel. A new DVD ("Libera" on EMI) is missing the center channel even though the menu says 5.1 surround and my player display mode says 3/2.1. Is it common for some discs to not have a center channel? Not common, perhaps, but certainly not unknown. Some discs are '5.1' but have no content in the surround or .1 channels, for example (e.g. Mercury Living Presence 3-channel SACDs) ___ -S "As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy, metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason |
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Missing center channel
"Steven Sullivan" wrote in message
... ---MIKE--- wrote: Most of my DVDs and SACDs have all five channels but some don't have a center channel. The London Symphony Live SACDs that I have are minus a center channel. A new DVD ("Libera" on EMI) is missing the center channel even though the menu says 5.1 surround and my player display mode says 3/2.1. Is it common for some discs to not have a center channel? Not common, perhaps, but certainly not unknown. Some discs are '5.1' but have no content in the surround or .1 channels, for example (e.g. Mercury Living Presence 3-channel SACDs) ___ -S "As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy, metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason Those that omit the center do so for one of two reasons; 1) They are basically quad masters from the '70's, recorded that way and presented as four channel within the surround possibilities of the 5.1 technologies. 2) They are produced by companies who philosophically have decided that it is better to continue having a phantom center channel (a la stereo) based on what are likely to be the best speakers, rather than from a center channel that conceivably might be the weakest link in the whole system. Chesky falls into this camp. |
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