All these comparisons you guys are reporting, they were all done blind and level-matched, right?
... I would suggest trying to market my surround music in blu ray form as a "preview" like a regular movie does, if you could find a way to make that happen. I honestly think having a song or at least a sample would recruit a lot of people to trying out surround music. Just my opinion....
That reminds me of the Acura DVD-A sampler discs. When you hear the stereo version of China Grove followed by the 5.1 Elliot Scheiner DVD-A version, it is so dramatically different and (I think) better. Most people don't get the chance to hear a direct comparison unless they have one of us bugging them. I think a Blu-Ray sample track would be a nice idea if you could get folks to actually listen to it.
Listening to that song at an auto show was the main reason I bought a new TL a few months ago. PT's Fear of a Blank Planet was one of the first DVD-A's I bought mainly because of the ratings on this web page. Before that I'd never even heard of them and now I'm buying all of the PT and SW DVD-A's I can so I can listen to them in my car. How ironic.Everything on the Acura disc is sweet, the Steve Miller cut with complete space jam, and the intro is wild.
Listening to that song at an auto show was the main reason I bought a new TL a few months ago. PT's Fear of a Blank Planet was one of the first DVD-A's I bought mainly because of the ratings on this web page. Before that I'd never even heard of them and now I'm buying all of the PT and SW DVD-A's I can so I can listen to them in my car. How ironic.
MLP is nearly indistinguishable from DTS-HD MA.
Both are lossless compression schemes, there should be zero difference between them if they're using the same master file.
That said I agree with Steven that DVD-A potential market is but a tiny fraction of the potential Blu-ray audio market, and to be honest you cannot listen critically to music in a car unless you're parked. There is no comparison to a great surround system in the home where you can close your eyes and truly experience the music. Now granted you can listen to DVD-A at home as well, but the market is just nothing compared to Blu-ray which is in over 65 million homes, over 30% of which have surround sound according to outdated numbers from DEG.
and another 80% don't realize they can play 5.1 music until the small % you tell about it say, "I never did think of that!"just nothing compared to Blu-ray which is in over 65 million homes, over 30% of which have surround sound according to outdated numbers from DEG.
.....and to be honest you cannot listen critically to music in a car unless you're parked......
Do you have a tutorial on how to do that and what programs to use? I'd be willing to take the time to do the conversions if I could listen to them in my Acura.Even though it's a pain, I rip my bluray tracks to my computer and then convert them over to flac & .mlp for dvd-audio authoring. This way you get the best of both worlds. All the extras which you can do on bluray, and dvd-audio for the car.
Well, while you may not be able to nit-pick a 5.1 listen in a car, you certainly can enjoy it, experience it, and appreciate the surround mix and audio clarity that a HiRez 5.1 playback can give you in a car. Everyone, without exception, that has ridden in my car has heard the huge difference between iPod/CD and DVD-A, stereo or 5.1.
As a rule, I try not to be envious of things but the ability to play dvd-audio while driving your car is definitely something I am envious of. I rarely play the radio because I am, and I freely admit it, a format bigot. When it comes to cars I am only willing to pay for a reliable set of wheels. I can't justify paying for luxury but unfortunately the cars with dvd-audio players are, for me, the luxury models.and to be honest you cannot listen critically to music in a car unless you're parked. There is no comparison to a great surround system in the home
As a rule, I try not to be envious of things but the ability to play dvd-audio while driving your car is definitely something I am envious of. I rarely play the radio because I am, and I freely admit it, a format bigot. When it comes to cars I am only willing to pay for a reliable set of wheels. I can't justify paying for luxury but unfortunately the cars with dvd-audio players are, for me, the luxury models.
Both are lossless compression schemes, there should be zero difference between them if they're using the same master file.
That said I agree with Steven that DVD-A potential market is but a tiny fraction of the potential Blu-ray audio market, and to be honest you cannot listen critically to music in a car unless you're parked. There is no comparison to a great surround system in the home where you can close your eyes and truly experience the music. Now granted you can listen to DVD-A at home as well, but the market is just nothing compared to Blu-ray which is in over 65 million homes, over 30% of which have surround sound according to outdated numbers from DEG.
Yes DVDAs are a little more convenient to play, but Blu-Rays have so many advantages to someone like me: one thing I love about Blu-Ray is that while you are playing an audio BD you can flip to all sorts of browsable art, scans, lyrics, other info, alternate versions, all of which without having to stop the audio from playing back. Not to mention far higher quality visuals, and much more space on the disc - for example on my recent Drive Home release, we couldn't make the DVD a DVDA without downgrading the quality of the video substantially to make space for the higher res audio. Given that choice there was no question that the visual material should take priority.
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to be honest you cannot listen critically to music in a car unless you're parked.
Do you have a tutorial on how to do that and what programs to use? I'd be willing to take the time to do the conversions if I could listen to them in my Acura.
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