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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 10-21-2001 01:37 PM
Gord,I never stated that some form of SR emulation isn't better than no SR. Heck, take to the absurd extreme...Dolby-A is an SR emulation! I personally have heard very few good SR emulations. Dolby's CP-650 hasn't thown up any red-flags on my listening tests and I was prepaired to be more skeptical on that one (digital emulation and all). I have not given it as much listening as I would like to make a definative statement though. The same goes for the Pana CM-353...I have heard good results but the total time I have listened to an optical track with it can be measured in minutes, not even hours so I will reserve judgement. As to the others you have mentioned...while better than nothing, I guess, entirely not good enough in my opinion. To the point, I feel, the patron is being ripped off. This industry doesn't need low-end systems out there. Home theatres already beat them. Steve ------------------
"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
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Mat Overton
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From: West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 10-21-2001 03:53 PM
Very true. And SR is next on the upgrade list.... along with decent surrounds...... I think that half the issue here is that we don't have the best surround speakers in the world, but we have to make do with what we do have. Our venue also has poor acoustics, and there's not a lot we can do about that. We don't run in a purpose built theatre, it's not even our venue..... it belongs to the university. I wouldn't be surprised if the main issue was sound reflecting off the back wall of the auditorium.I know that SR soundtracks will never sound brilliant in Dolby A, but what I meant was that they sound as good as they realistically can do! What concerns me is that this posting has been brought to the attention of our installers by a reader of this forum, and suggests that they did not install the system properly. My posting here is to reassure readers that they carried out the Dolby install as professionally as possible, despite dealing with our equipment that doesn't quite live up to a professional standard. At least we are making the effort to upgrade, I can only do it one step at a time.
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 10-21-2001 07:46 PM
Mat,Believe it or not, I got that impression from your post (doing as well as can be done). My only real point was that A can not do well with SR soundtracks...it, by design, has to fail in the decoding department which will cause 2:4 mistracking as well. Gord, since the processor choices that started this thread were the CP-45 and CP-55...one has to presume it is the CP-55 since the CP-45 has Dolby SR out of the box (albiet the dreaded Cat. 222 SR/A). Steve ------------------
"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
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