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Falcon01
July 2006
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In my opinion 7.2 (yes .2 for a second subwoofer, one on the left side, one on the right) is MORE THAN ENOUGH for people to have in their living room.
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Are they developing their own audio codec for discreet 9.1 or expecting Dolby and DTS to code?
I have to agree with most of the posters here, 7.1 (or 2) sounds more than enough to me. Even for a specialized home theater room. We now enjoy incredibly high-bitrate audio streams from blu-ray discs, identical to the theater tracks and even the bare minimum (5.1) is enough to impress and immerse.
This reminds me when "we were soldiers" came out, it had an extra "TOP" channel, literally mounted on the ceiling.
Positioning question: I always wondered why do we have to place home cinema speakers on ear-level while cinema venues have them at least half a meter above the listening position.
John J. Puccio
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You don't. In fact, as you say, movie theaters position their side and rear speakers above the audience's ears. At the Dolby Labs Web site http://www.dolby.com/index.html, they provide system setups for 5.1 and 7.1 home sound, and in both cases the surround and rear speakers are higher than ear level. The front channels should be at ear level, but not the sides and back. Otherwise, we'd have helicopters flying through our heads instead of over them.
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It's funny how people always mention helicopters as an example for surround sound. I think it has to do with apocalypse now. It was the first 5.1 movie right?
(btw, mr. john, i was wondering if you had an email address, i want to ask you smt in private, i would basically want to ask your opinion on smt, thnx)
[Post edited by S_Coaster on May 1, 2009 - CDT 2:31 PM]
Falcon01
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True and don't forget the cars in Fast and the Furious crushing our skulls.
John J. Puccio
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Check your Friends request list. I sent you a request.
And for the rest of you DVDTOWN members, remember, if you want to contact any of the staff, just put us in your "Friends" list (by making a one-time request of each of us first), and we'd be glad to communicate with you.
John
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