On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:38:59 -0800, Durround wrote
(in article <fklven$pes$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
> "Matthew Shepherd" <mgw.shepherd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
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!
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
Some of the later LaserDiscs did have digital 5.1 sound (as well as the
analog stereo track). And any Dolby Stereo movie which made it to Laser
had
Matrixed Surround encoded in the analog tracks. All you need is the Dolby
Logic surround decoder available in most 5.1 receivers. True, it only
yields
4-channels and the separation front-to-rear is "enhanced" by the decoder,
but
it works OK for what it is. I've heard some pretty good effects from such
a
system (planes flying overhead in "The Right Stuff", convincing surround
jungle sounds in "Rambo II", etc.)
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