[78-L] STEREO<<<<>>>>PHONIC SOUNDDDDDDD ^

[Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.]

David Lennick wrote:
> We discussed wide stereo sound on movies shown on TV a couple of years ago, and 
> I cited Mister Roberts as having audio that bounced all over the place. Great 
> in a theater, rotten on television. I just found one that was worse..The Left 
> Hand of God, which TCM ran the other night. Nice wide 16:9 CinemaScope, great 
> sound on the music, ludicrous panpotting on the voices..following the 
> characters as they moved from the side to the center, following them when the 
> angle changed, and even spreading them out wide when Bogie and Tierney were in 
> the middle of the shot.
>
>   
Sound in cinema nowadays is more for effect than for reality. The 
"surround sound" I heard from some of these crappy home systems is far 
inferior to the full, much more natural sound I get from my 30 year old 
Yamaha receiver hooked up to an inexpensive Radio Shack subwoofer, a 
pair of Klipsch shelf speakers, an old quadrasonic box and a pair of 
mediocre floor speakers in the back.
Used to have true quad for a time.

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