OK, I did play around with the cables a bit. Yes, the pumping did switch sides when I reversed the inputs, although I did notice some pumping in both the front right & left BUT more so the left. When I reversed the inputs, it was more on the front right. When I reversed the inputs & outputs, it stayed mostly in the front left. As I said before, this is in 5.1 involve mode. When I go to 4.1, the pumping is greatly deminished.
Sorry for the delayed reply.
Many tracks, it sounds fine but there are some that it really stands out. The one that comes to mind is Elton John's "Someone saved my life tonight", but there are several others. I've noticed that when you're in the center of the listening area (the "sweet spot"), It sounds good. You don't notice it much, BUT when you go near an individual speaker, you hear it. This is much more noticeable in my outdoor system with the original SM than it is in my living room system using the V2. While you can faintly hear pumping on the same stereo songs in my living room system, the speakers are much closer together & are of better quality. Again, just to set the record straight, this only happens in the involve mode, listening to non encoded, straight stereo music. When processing RM, or QS through the involve mode, it sounds GREAT !! Excellent separation !! Same thing with decoding SQ music, GREAT SOUND & no pumping at all. I originally purchased the surround master just to play SQ, QS & RM encoded recordings & it's awesome for those purposes ! I then later heard from many that you can play stereo recordings using the "involve mode" & it does some really interesting things with them. It certainly does that but with the residual pumping issue on some recordings, at least on my equipment.
No, I'm not putting my ear up to 1 speaker. I just walk to 1 corner of the yard where I hear mostly the speaker in that corner & the pumping is pretty clear. It sounds "OK" in the middle of the yard, not nesessarily great. Besides, why can't I just listen to 1 speaker. Us old quad guys always did that in the 70's to hear what individual instruments were coming out of each speaker. That was always part of the quad experience back in the day. With discreet quad recordings you could isolate just the drums, maybe just the bass, maybe just the rhythm guitar etc. For example, I never knew there was a banjo in the Doobie Brothers song "Listen to the Music" until I heard the quad mix & isolated the rear right speaker. As a musician, myself & my friends loved to "disect" quad mixes.
Was going to suggest the same!
Playing a CD-4 record through a Surround Master is no different from playing a stereo record, in that the effect is synthesized, with no resemblance to the actual quad mix.
I'm not playing CD-4 records through the surround master. I meant that when playing SQ or RM encoded recordings through the surround master, the separation is as good as cd-4 or discreet recordings.
I've mentioned 1 song about 3 times throughout this thread. Elton John's "Someone saved my life tonight" is pretty bad pumping & distortion wise in the front & center channels. I'll make note of some more but I'm going on vacation, so that may be delayed a couple of weeks.
I’d give it a go, but my system is down due to a component failure. Hopefully I will be up again middle of next week and will try this.
I'll try and remember to give it a try in the morning
as I suspected SW, wondering if a long distance outdoor speaker setup is creating some sort of echo effect that may be interpreted as pumping.
We also don't know his specific outdoor acoustic situation; maybe he's got a high concrete back wall or- or- or- or something?
