From: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org (faxlist-digest) To: faxlist-digest@monkey.org Subject: faxlist-digest V2003 #52 Reply-To: faxlist@2350.org Sender: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org Errors-To: owner-faxlist-digest@2350.org Precedence: bulk faxlist-digest Wednesday, March 19 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 052 Re: (fax) Back to the music: DVD sound (fax) http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html (fax) Review - Create (PW15) Re: (fax) Back to the music: DVD sound (fax) Ambient Cookbook 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 07:19:39 -0500 From: "Mike Carss" Subject: Re: (fax) Back to the music: DVD sound The spec for DVD-Audio is using the LPCM encoding, which is basically uncompressed audio. The difference is that the bitrate and sample rate are much higher than CDs. Audio CDs are 44.1khz 16-bit, Audio DVDs are 96khz 24-bit. And it also supports up to eight channels. 7.1 anyone? :P There's a lot more to it than that, I have a big fat book at work about the DVD spec but that's all I remember ATM. It would be cool if the format became popular, I'd love to hear all my ambient music mixed in 5.1. Yum! :) - -Mike - ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Whitney" To: "sanvara" ; Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:46 PM Subject: Re: (fax) Back to the music: DVD sound > --- sanvara wrote: > > DVD-audio played on a two > > speaker system won't sound any better than a CD, but > > if you have a Dolby 5.1 > > system/speaker set-up it can sound much better than > > a 2 channel CD mix. > > Wait, now I'm confused. I was under the impression > that DVD-Audio offered a 2-channel option that was far > superior to CD-quality sound (reproduced at some > ridiculous bit rate, so high-quality that it takes up > an entire DVD). I thought the 5-channel recordings > were a different feature of DVD-Audio altogether. I > think you can get the 5-channel surround mix OR you > can get a 2-channel mix that features this supposed > new amazing sound definition. > > Am I way off here? > > John W. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 05:30:26 -0700 From: David Hodgson Subject: (fax) http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html http://www.audiolinks.nl/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:28:23 -0000 From: Richard Hughes Subject: (fax) Review - Create (PW15) Create Create is the second of the four collaborations to date between Namlook and Charles Uzzell-Edwards. Of the four I hugely prefer the first of each series to the respective second volumes. For some inexplicable reason though I actually bought volumes 2 of Create and A New Consciousness before volumes 1. Therefore Create 1 was not high on my shopping list of outstanding Fax titles to buy, but when I picked it up for next to nothing a while back I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is actually rather good. It is one of those long, single-track Fax albums, conveniently indexed every five minutes or so. It starts out in a rather dark and sinister fashion, with a lot of rumbling and some extremely distorted voices just about audible in the background. It continues this way for the next fifteen minutes or so with various other clicks and static interference washing in and out of the of the left and right channels. By the time the fourth track rolls around the beginnings of some more atmospheric drones start to make themselves felt and we slowly drift off into deep space territory of the kind found on Shades of Orion 2. The transition is gradual with the darker voices slowly being overtaken by deeper and more atmospheric string sounds. From here on the listener can just let go, let their mind wander and slowly be carried along with the music. Towards the end of track 5 some echoing percussion bobs in and out of the mix for a couple of minutes until out of nowhere a huge hissing hi-hat cymbal makes its entrance just in case you were beginning to drop off. The cymbal scythes its way in and out of the strings for the next half hour or so, sometimes it drops away all together as Pete increases the intensity of the cosmic pads and our journey into outer space dips in another direction. Or sometimes they converge in a glowing mix of sound. Overall this is a really nice album that whilst not particularly challenging is a very pleasant ride nonetheless. *************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee and access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. 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The single review at 2350.org does not state one way or the other. I know they likely are not layered like in the Cookbook 2. thanks in advance, Graham ------------------------------ End of faxlist-digest V2003 #52 ******************************* --- + To post: ; to mail a person: + To unsubscribe: "unsubscribe" to + Online info at: www.faxlabel.com www.hyperreal.org/fax www.2350.org