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- From: andy@balr.com (Andrew Little)
- Subject: Surround CD info
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.165347.22299@balr.com>
- Organization: Balr Corporation
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:53:47 GMT
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- FYI
-
- From the liner notes on my Pro-Arte digital surround sound CD of
- Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture:
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-
- Surround Sound
-
- This digital Stereosurround recording has been created using
- professional Shure HTS Stereosurround production equipment for
- improved stereo-sound playback. Fully compatible with all
- conventional stereo-playback systems, the recording will provide an
- enhanced listening experience unavailable from conventional stereo
- recordings.
-
- The 1977 sonic spectacular "Star Wars" debuted a new era of realism in
- multichannel sound for movies. For the first time, film-sound
- presented the viewer with not only left-to-right stereo imaging that
- had been enjoyed for decades in conventional stereo recordings, but
- also information coming from the side and rear of the listener. This
- phenomenon creates an impressively lifelike sound-field.
-
- Now a highly refined evolution of this remarkable technique is being
- applied to digital music recordings by Pro-Arte. Audiophile recording
- techniques, used specifically for the production of state-of-the-art
- compact discs with the most sophisticated Stereosurround system,
- result in a crystal sound that creates a sense of "being there" like
- no other listening experience today.
-
- Listeners with conventional stereo-playback systems will enjoy
- improved stereo imaging and a better sense of spatial depth. These
- added benefits of the Stereosurround process are most apparent when
- the listener is facing as point in space between the stereo pair of
- loudspeakers.
-
- Listeners with Stereosurround playback systems, including Shure
- AcraVector Logic or Dolby Surround Pro-Logic, will hear the
- sound-field space presented more accurately with only two speakers
- regardless of seating position. Unlike some home-sound effects
- processors, which give everything a particular sound until the user
- changes modes again, the Stereosurround "encoding" tells your surround
- decoder how to duplicate each and every sound as created and heard by
- the artists and producers. Any given Stereosurround recording will
- put you in the best seat at that concert. if different venues were
- recorded on back-to-back cuts, your decoder would reproduce each one
- for you. Thus, the producer may take you to a majestic concert hall
- for one recording and an intimate club for the next. And because the
- recording supplies the digital-signal processing program to tell your
- surround decoder how to reproduce the sound, each new recording has
- the potential to elevate you to new exciting experiences in music.
- Please refer to instructions with you surround decoder for the proper
- speaker placement.
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-
- Address:
-
- Intersound Inc.
- Hembree Crest Center
- PO Box 1724
- Roswell, GA 30077-1274
-
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-
- I have no comments on the content of the previous information - that
- is left as an exercise for the reader :-)
-
- Andy Little BALR Corporation
- andy@balr.com Software Solutions in Real Time
-