Ugo
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Posted: July 19 2009, 18:58 |
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Before doing anything with a new adapter or a new cord, I'd check the ordinary CD of Ommadawn, if you have it - i.e. the non-Boxed mix - and see if everything sounds right on that one. I'm telling you this because I know that the Boxed version of Ommadawn, like all of Boxed, was mixed in quad, and the quad mix are intact on the CDs, in spite of what the booklet says. So it may be that some sections of Ommadawn aren't really clear because they've been mixed to go on the rear speakers in the quad mix, so maybe a slight phasing problem (out-of-phase stereo or something), maybe caused by your adapter, is cancelling out one of the two "pseudo-stereo" channels on the mix, i.e. either the 'front speakers' or the 'rear speakers' channel is cancelled out (I don't remember where the marimba and the female vocals are, whether in the front or in the rear). This channel is an actual one in the quad mix, but it's just reduced to a "pseudo" channel when the mix is played through ordinary stereo speakers. I'm not sure whether I'm being clear enough on this, but it's what happens to me when I've got a DVD that's mixed in 5.1 and I play it through two loudspeakers (such as the ones on my TV)... some things are often cancelled out, or muted. To give you an example, I've got a DVD of Freddie Mercury's videos, which features just a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix and not a stereo mix, for all songs; on "I Was Born to Love You", all of Freddie's crashing piano chords throughout the choruses are completely absent when I play the DVD through stereo speakers and not through my 5.1 system setup, because those chords were mixed to go only on the rear speakers, which is kind of weird for a music video's sound mix... but I guess that whoever mixed it was playing a bit with the pan control, just like Mike did on the 5.1 mix of TB 2003...
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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