If you have a 4k Blu-ray player, try the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival blu-ray disc, all are recorded in stereo and surround sound. The surround sound tracks all sound amazing IMHO.
Why don't they record in ‘surround stereo’?
Surround sound can sound wonderful on your home theater system if the recording is done well. Unfortunately, a quality home theater movie soundtrack recording streamed at home is not so good due to bandwidth problems and not a top priority from movie creators unfortunately
And maybe for stereo listening connoisseurs, via records or streaming, it may be nice to hear Music delivered to rear speakers in the room rather than just from the two main speakers. And yes main speakers can do an excellent job spreading pressure amplitudes evenly throughout the room with good amplification and room acoustics but maybe it could get better.
Possibly might it be more interesting if current stereo recordings could be recorded in surround stereo. Not sure how taboo or how awful this would be if done well. Stereo is a relic of the past it may be worth upgrading a bit, and maybe rethinking how music is recorded and delivered in current Times might be worth exploring.
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Interesting taken from Wiki" Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective. This is usually achieved by using two independent audio channels through a configuration of two loudspeakers (or stereo headphones) in such a way as to create the impression of sound heard from various directions, as in natural hearing. Because the multi-dimensional perspective is the crucial aspect, the term stereophonic also applies to systems with more than two channels or speakers such as quadraphonic and surround sound. Binaural sound systems are also stereophonic. |
Fascinating comments above. I guess another huge obstacle is all the Cable connections would have to be increased coming out of the back of the components if you expand from two channel listening to more channels. Vastly complicating the cabling and connectivity issues of the components. If you have a good speaker system and great amplification, I guess the benefits are marginal. But there did seem to be openness in comments that there is potential it could be actually better. Because I have nice speakers and amplification, including lots of tubes, I tend to listen to my home theater with two main speakers, eliminate the center channel and leave in the surround rear speakers . Often times this is a lot better. But other times you need the center speaker so the dialogue is more discernible and doesn't disrupt what's going on in the main speakers. This configuration can be handled toggling back-and-forth between two settings settings on the home theater remote. Ie. Super easy to go back-and-forth.
So at least on the home theater side I have the flexibility and it is working out really well |
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