Dietrich kindly sent me a copy of his "Quadro-Surround" label's latest release, entitled "Crossover Quintet", and I have to say that it's quite remarkable and enjoyable. I listened to it TWICE in the car, and then played it through at home with my wife listening, and she thought it was superb!!
From the enclosed booklet, the description is that "The first violin is in the front middle, left the 2nd violin, and viola to the right. Martin Benz plays his inimitable superb cello at the rear right while the bass delivers the stabilizing element in the balance of sound and music at the rear left. This conscious multichannel production demonstrates that in the classical music through quadraphonic technology instruments can be located to their respective postitions within the orchestra."
The listening experience is wonderful. The instruments are not totally isolated, but they are very directional. This is a 4.0 recording, so the "first violin is in the front middle" is not a center channel audio track, but is mixed into the FL and FR to come from the center listening area.
The disc is DVD-Audio (24/48) and Dolby Digital, and has 14 tracks. I've encoded 1:30 of the first track into 16/44 DTS as a wav file. You can download this and play it in Foobar or any compatible player that will decode DTS. Do not play it with Media Player from here as you will only hear static.
For those interested in surround classical music, this disc seems (to me) to be a winner. Of course, I am far from the classical expert. I would love to hear what Kal Rubinson thinks about this disc. Dietrich, how about sending Kal a disc for evaluation?
DOWNLOAD THE DTS SAMPLE HERE
From the enclosed booklet, the description is that "The first violin is in the front middle, left the 2nd violin, and viola to the right. Martin Benz plays his inimitable superb cello at the rear right while the bass delivers the stabilizing element in the balance of sound and music at the rear left. This conscious multichannel production demonstrates that in the classical music through quadraphonic technology instruments can be located to their respective postitions within the orchestra."
The listening experience is wonderful. The instruments are not totally isolated, but they are very directional. This is a 4.0 recording, so the "first violin is in the front middle" is not a center channel audio track, but is mixed into the FL and FR to come from the center listening area.
The disc is DVD-Audio (24/48) and Dolby Digital, and has 14 tracks. I've encoded 1:30 of the first track into 16/44 DTS as a wav file. You can download this and play it in Foobar or any compatible player that will decode DTS. Do not play it with Media Player from here as you will only hear static.
For those interested in surround classical music, this disc seems (to me) to be a winner. Of course, I am far from the classical expert. I would love to hear what Kal Rubinson thinks about this disc. Dietrich, how about sending Kal a disc for evaluation?
DOWNLOAD THE DTS SAMPLE HERE