Black Bunik
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Posted: June 20 2012, 05:28 |
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| Quote (equinoxe @ June 20 2012, 04:34) | | Quote (Black Bunik @ June 20 2012, 03:27) | | Quote (TOBY @ June 19 2012, 14:25) | | I also don't really think its almost criminal for him to be not doing a 5.1 mix of these albums. So few people listen to music on a 5.1 system. Even when there was a craze for it round about the time of the TB2003 5.1 mix not that many people were into it. I'd prefer a new stereo mix but even then I don't think any of these albums particularly need it. |
I also think 5.1 is kind off unnecessary.
I mean I prefer proper stereo (perhaps 2.1) system over 5.1.
For the same price you can have far better sound. And if you always imagine the stage instruments are played in front of you all the time.
5.1 is definitely fun, but sitting among musicians, or instruments dancing around is kind of unnatural.
Really a matter of opinion.  |
For me, that 5.1 mixes are mostly unnecesary, but those mixes has one, big advantage: you can hear all the channels separately, so you can discover things, you can't normally hear in the stereo mix. When i heard Ommadawn channel by channel separately for the first time, i was flabbergasted, because i could to listen to some instruments that was almost unlistenable, very deep in the stereo mix, so this was like a new Ommadawn... or like the hearing to it at another angle... Love that really much! |
I agree with you on that. It is definitley easier to notice and locate more instruments on Mike's albums like that.
However with good stereo mix on a good stereo equipment you can do the same. Instruments are just infront of you.
Good speakers will give you wide soundstage and good instrument location. Then you will notice things you never heard on album you've heard so many times.
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) like they did with Abba's Complete Studio Recordings box set - re. "loudness war".
The tracklist looks nice, though - not bad for a "Very Best of".