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Full surround from stereo speakers!

Flint

Flint

Prodigal Son
Superstar
This morning after about 3 hours of very intense writing and editing at my desk at work I stopped my focus on work for a minute to read some news stories. I have a set of Audio Engine 5+ speakers sitting on my desk in a perfect triangle arrangement with my face making up the third corner. I almost always have my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge with a 200GB micro-SD card filled with nearly 90% of my music collection in either VBR or Lossless WMA files playing randomly over Bluetooth to a Roverbeats UNIFY Bluetooth receiver connected to the analog input on the speakers.

As I was reading a news story about the Greek financial bailout plan, I noticed that a tinny voice coming from directly to my left. My work cellphone happened to be sitting on my desk where the sound appeared to be coming from, so I looked at it to see if maybe a phone call had been started, but it was silent. At that point I realized the sound I heard coming from my far left was in the track playing over the speakers. It was "Three Wishes" from Roger Water's Amused to Death album. Wow!

I had totally forgotten about Roger using some cool surround sound encoding tech on his solo albums, Amused to Death being better than The Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking. The experience I had with this song on my little office setup was amazing.

Oh how we have forgotten about so much with the modern age! This album was released in 1992 and has sound encoded to appear to realistically be coming from all around you, with extreme realism. An amazing audiophile creation.

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For those of you who remember and love Roger's work, I strongly recommend you set aside an hour, pull out your copy of the album, pour yourself a good drink, and listen to it from start to finish in a perfect stereo setup. It is amazing.
 
Cool. There's also an actual surround mix (on bd audio) available, along with the cd... ordered the set.
 
PaulyT said:
Cool. There's also an actual surround mix (on bd audio) available, along with the cd... ordered the set.
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Yeah, I've heard the surround re-mix, and I find it not as engulfing as the original stereo mix.

This sort of technology, made possible by digital playback methods with perfect phase characteristics, creates a sound-field which is well-blended, balanced, and "musical". When using discrete speakers and channels, a perfectly arranged and tuned system with truly matched speakers can sound amazing with this sort of content, but small issues with placement, delay settings, or mis-matched speakers will kill the effect that a set of good stereo speakers setup properly can offer.
 
Yeah, it'll be interesting to compare, actually. Can't guarantee anything about the placement or room acoustics, but the manufacturer of my speakers assures me they're well matched. ;)
 
By the way, Pauly, I used Roger Waters' Amused to Death CD to audition the calibration of the crossover delay settings on those speakers. When dialed in perfectly, the surround effect was incredible.
 
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