On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:38:59 -0000, "Durround" <nothing@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Matthew Shepherd" <mgw.shepherd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:8a45b81e-e483-4d64-906e-b9e17c1b9e8d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>A little bit of an odd ball question - I am currently investigating
>> setting up a home theatre for my small, yet growing collection of
>> Laserdiscs (yes, I am 10 years too late), but I know very little about
>> audio, so I was hoping for some help.
>>
>> I have settled on using a Yamaha RX-V1 as my receiver, but don't have
>> a clue what speaker to in with. I will need 6.1 sup****t, and I would
>> really prefer the speakers to be Japanese. Price is an issue, but I do
>> want quality, and will be willing to go 2nd hand to make this a
>> reality. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thankyou so much!
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>Surround is encoded on the discs.
>Laserdiscs never came with surround sound encoded.
>Many early Laserdisks were mono only, the best you may
>have is a stereo Laserdisc player.
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>You cite that you will need "6.1 sup****t".
>If you feed the stereo soundtrack of a laserdisc into 6 spearkers
>it is not surround, it is no longer stereo, all it will be is a cluttered
>multi-speaker mono.
>The "1" in "6.1" is a dedicated subwoofer channel.
>Laserdiscs are not encoded with such.
>The best you can do is connect a Sub and two satalites.
>You "really need the speakers to be Japanese"?
>Well that means you will miss out on all the budget - but good
>speakers out of Taiwan or Korea, also ruled out are the quality
>transducers out of America and Europe.
>The final point, with the vast cataloque of the superior DVD format,
>why would anyone bother with the obsolete Laserdisc format?
>
Why do people have Edison Cylinder machines? 78's? 45's?
They are "THE HISTORY of AUDIO and VIDEO" and are the fuel of collectors.
Mono
Binaural (used 2 tone arms)
Stereo
Quad (SQ, QS, CD-4, Open Reel)
78,45,331/3, 16-2/3.
8 track
Beta
VHS
Most of what you said appears correct except the Mono part??
True surround (surround channel assignment by design) was not encoded as
you
state. Most had Stereo encoding in the days that VHS only gad linear
(crappy)
Mono.
Matrix Surround is still possible and can have some interesting artifacts
(Neil Diamonds, Jazz Singer has a audience to back stage pan, The audio
did
not pan with it, only a level change :/ and the error was not that
noticeable
in a Stereo only playback)
..
An additional problem with Lasers that you did NOT mention, is not all
disks
had a DIGITAL soundtrack, those discs require a input mode change (Digital
to
Analog) to get any output.
My equipment history
Pioneer VP1000 top loader (before solid state lasers), Analog only.
Audio processed by the Matrix setting of a SQ decoder
Upgraded to a Pioneer CLD3030 with digital output (Still in service)
Steve U
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