Is there an existential threat to this forum now that mono can be mixed in Atmos?
Innovations such as Peter Jackson's DeMix means mono and stereo can be reimagined spatially. Whatever your personal definition of 3D, quadraphonic, multi-channel and spatial audio is, everything can now be that. What does it mean when we start discussing the Atmos remix of the Beatles mono Revolver album? Is everything now spatial?
In other words what use are Quadraphonic discussions when everything is or can be spatial presentations?
I personally do believe this forum is a valid space where the fascination with aural illusion thrives and can be talked about with common underpinnings.
But this forum's common underpinning and our base assumptions are being questioned and seriously challenged in ways unlike anything in the past. For some time now this forum has accepted that the quadraphonic sound of the 1970s means more than just 4 speakers. But what unique discussions belongs here? Are we now Quadraphonic in name only, having the name being utterly reduced to meaninglessness?
Innovations such as Peter Jackson's DeMix means mono and stereo can be reimagined spatially. Whatever your personal definition of 3D, quadraphonic, multi-channel and spatial audio is, everything can now be that. What does it mean when we start discussing the Atmos remix of the Beatles mono Revolver album? Is everything now spatial?
In other words what use are Quadraphonic discussions when everything is or can be spatial presentations?
I personally do believe this forum is a valid space where the fascination with aural illusion thrives and can be talked about with common underpinnings.
But this forum's common underpinning and our base assumptions are being questioned and seriously challenged in ways unlike anything in the past. For some time now this forum has accepted that the quadraphonic sound of the 1970s means more than just 4 speakers. But what unique discussions belongs here? Are we now Quadraphonic in name only, having the name being utterly reduced to meaninglessness?