Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yes, indeed! The worst are the rolling ghetto-blaster cars. On the Ampex list, discussion turned 
once to some sort of anti-bass wave generator that would cause the transducers (they're not really 
speakers, more low-frequency shakers) to feed back until they exploded. When those cars roll up on 
me, I think about the one time I went to a monster truck "rally." The featured event was "Stomping" 
on a bunch of souped-up little cars like these bass-fiends drive.

Regarding one of the earlier comments about SACD, the fact that the sub channel is often trans-coded 
to PCM, I read somewhere that most engineers who remix for SACD or record original multi-channel 
SACD content do not use the sub-channel. This is why SACD is best heard through 5 equal-sized 
speakers, and why some SACD's work terribly in a typical home theater setup.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steven c" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Admittedly, they're not my taste anyway, but with modern rap and
> electronica CDs, I find the
> > practice to panning deep bass sounds to one side or another particularly
> annoying. Just because you
> > CAN do something on a CD doesn't mean you should.
> Well, a prominent bass is an important feature of 21st century CD's!
> Buyers install "hyper-amps" dedicated to having a chest-crushing bass...
> several hundred watts of signal feeding sub-woofers...and the fact
> that your car (or your apartment) produces a thumping bass that can
> be heard for blocks around is actually their goal! Needless to say,
> dance clubs take the same approach (promising much-improved hearing
> aid sales in upcoming decades, if nothing else...?!)
>
> Steven C. Barr