Hey all,
I belong to an audio club here in Seattle called the Pacific Northwest Audio Society, or PNAS. Please, no jokes about the acronym.
The club publishes a newsletter containing a feature called "System of the Month". Well, this month they chose to feature my system. Since I am pretty much the only guy in the club that is heavy into surround-sound, this is going to be a real eye-opener for a lot of our members. Quadraphonics and surround-sound get ample coverage. If you're curious, check out the newsletter at www.greatgig.com/misc/PNASJuly2002.pdf
Also, as a tie-in to the newsletter I will be doing a stereo DVD-Audio demonstration at the club meeting this evening. The club's system is stereo only, and I'm not about to lug my own setup to the meeting to do a surround-sound demo. Preparing for this demonstration is what started me down the road of evaluating the contents and format of the various DVD-A titles now available. In any event, club members have had ample exposure to SACD but there has never been a demo of DVD-A, and I know a lot of these guys will be hearing it for the first time. I get the feeling that they will very surprised with what they hear.
So, in my own small way, I'm trying to get the word out that surround-sound is not the monster that many audiophiles think it is and also hope to show them that just because DVD-A is marketed primarily to home theater types doesn't mean that it doesn't have what it takes to soothe the stereophile beast.
Yowza!
Cai
I belong to an audio club here in Seattle called the Pacific Northwest Audio Society, or PNAS. Please, no jokes about the acronym.
The club publishes a newsletter containing a feature called "System of the Month". Well, this month they chose to feature my system. Since I am pretty much the only guy in the club that is heavy into surround-sound, this is going to be a real eye-opener for a lot of our members. Quadraphonics and surround-sound get ample coverage. If you're curious, check out the newsletter at www.greatgig.com/misc/PNASJuly2002.pdf
Also, as a tie-in to the newsletter I will be doing a stereo DVD-Audio demonstration at the club meeting this evening. The club's system is stereo only, and I'm not about to lug my own setup to the meeting to do a surround-sound demo. Preparing for this demonstration is what started me down the road of evaluating the contents and format of the various DVD-A titles now available. In any event, club members have had ample exposure to SACD but there has never been a demo of DVD-A, and I know a lot of these guys will be hearing it for the first time. I get the feeling that they will very surprised with what they hear.
So, in my own small way, I'm trying to get the word out that surround-sound is not the monster that many audiophiles think it is and also hope to show them that just because DVD-A is marketed primarily to home theater types doesn't mean that it doesn't have what it takes to soothe the stereophile beast.
Yowza!
Cai