CD диски с DTS Surround Sound

Евгений! Не забывайте, что при всех компьютерных психоакустических ухищрениях, на DTS меньше реальной информации, чем на CD-DA. Кроме того, ни один DTS диск не писался с мастер-ленты, как MFSL.

Честно говоря, я не особо представляю, как можно записать DTS напрямую с мастер-денты! Ну да пусть это будет на их совести.

Может быть конечно. А то за диск? Я попробую разузнать. Даже интересно.

Неа, никогда. Это неофицальный релиз. Сделан он достаточно качественно чтобы слушать в многоканальном режиме. Я и не говорил что там качество супер-пупер. Вся соль именно в прослушивании многоканального варианта хорошо знакомой музыки. Если интересует происхождение этих дисков, то вот выдержка из файлика, который был с dts диском:

Pink Floyd
The Dark Side Of The Moon
British Q8 converted to DTS, supposedly by Tab. Quad God.
1973 Harvest Records/EMI Ltd.

Ok, now that that's out of the way, for the rest of you, yes, this is the highly rare Q8 British version of Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. For most purposes, the band had aimed for their audience to hear the album THIS way, but unfortunately QUAD playback didn't take off like people thought it would, and this Q8 was definately an obsure item, concidering in the UK, 8-Track cartridge technology was not a saught-after mainstay of playback like it was in the US circa the 1970's.

Supposedly this CD/DTS was encoded by Tab Patterson, although I can't be totally sure. Here's what I DO know, and you BETTER READ THIS BEFORE YOU COME OUT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE POST:

1. This is a Q8. Technically, a rip from a 8-channel, 2 program cartridge (yep! just like an 8-track). It was recorded using fairly mediocre 1/2 track technology, therefore, the sound will be less than most versions of this albums on CD. Why post? Because it's QUAD and you may have a lot of fun. So, before you have dillusions of grandure that this disc will sound absolutely kick ass sonically over a MFSL or Capitol CD, you might find that it....uh.. doesn't. Still, it's the authentic ol'Quad presentation in about the sincerety of most Q8's as you'd expect. I'm sure you understand (or I'd HOPE so).

2. There is noise reduction at a -10db to -16db noise level (say "OUCH" with me!). This cart supposedly had some prevelant tape hiss, which was removed at the cost of some 'soundstage' presence. Again, this is something you'll have to put up with for the experience. You'll notice the disc has noise reduction slathered on it. It's not really that bad, but I'm warning you.

3. Oh, since the program material is from Q8, please remove use of your subwoofer and center channel, as in some instances, your preamp or DTS playback might downmix into these channels. Being only 4-channels of sound, only 4 of the 6 DTS channels were utilized at encode. Wanna use the woof anyway? Fine. But the mix was intened for 4 identical full-range speakers, even at birth back in the early 70's. I'd suggest you at least try to listen to it that way, if you can. Most preamps have a feature to turn off certain 'accessory' channels using the remote and on-screen menus.

4. Really stupid (but cost saving) method EMI used in producing this little miracle, instead of taking Program 1 & 2 (to duplicate the sides of the album 1 & 2) they let "Money" run at the end of Program 1, then fade back up at program 2. The crossfade was not overlapping, so during the 1st 1-2 minutes of "Money", the sound quality might take a dump, okay? This was when the author (not moi) tried as hard as he could to pair the program breaks together without interrupting the music. You'll hear it, trust me.

Cost effectiveness, means they could save ~23 shillings per tape, if you get my drift. Instead of using 2 minutes of blank space run out at Program 1, as Side 2 of the album is definately longer, they broke "Money" up (ironic!) between the channel change. Yes, it sucks, but whatcha gonna do??

5. You will notice some things left in the mix that was not originally left in for the album as YOU know it. This might excite you or annoy you. What's the difference??? Just have fun with it. Besides the theme of the album is about confusion and madness.