{"id":34,"date":"2009-04-13T21:19:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2022-04-02T18:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:20:27","slug":"must-have-multichannel-recordings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/must-have-multichannel-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Test tracks: Multichannel (5.x)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Important Note: 5.x Multichannel music is recorded to be played with 5 matched full-range loudspeakers and no subwoofer.<\/em><em> So, if you&#8217;re listening to these, turn off your sub and your bass-management system. If this means that you lose all of your bass, then you should buy better loudspeakers&#8230; ;-)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Pink Floyd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Album: Dark Side of the Moon (Hybrid SACD)<\/p>\n<p>Track: All of them&#8230; in sequence&#8230; in the dark&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Label: EMI<\/p>\n<p>Why: Because you&#8217;ve probably been listening to the stereo (or mono!) downmix of this for 50 years and it&#8217;s about time that you heard what it originally sounded like&#8230; (If you REALLY want to do it right, turn off the centre front loudspeaker and the subwoofer (assuming that you&#8217;ve got good main speakers).)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Seal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Album: Best | 1991 &#8211; 2004 (DVD-Audio)<\/p>\n<p>Track: Kiss from a Rose<\/p>\n<p>Label: Warner<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Hillary Hahn &amp; The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Album: Bach &#8211; Concertos (Hybrid SACD)<\/p>\n<p>Label: Deutsche Grammophon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Claire Martin<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Album: Linn Selektions: The Super Audio Surround Volume (Hybrid SACD)<\/p>\n<p>Track: Black Coffee<\/p>\n<p>Label: Linn Records<\/p>\n<p>Why: This is a great mix &#8211; all of the instruments are controlled, but not overly so. Lots of frequency bands have equal representation. A good all-around track for testing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Various<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Album: The Super Audio Surround Collection, Volume 2 (Hybrid SACD)<\/p>\n<p>Label: Linn Records<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Album: Arvo P\u00e4rt: De Profundis (Hybrid SACD)<\/p>\n<p>Label: Harmonia Mundi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Various<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Album: Super Audio CD Sampler (Hybrid SACD)<\/p>\n<p>Label: Pentatone Classics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: Steely Dan<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Album: Everything Must Go (DVD-Audio)<\/p>\n<p>Label: Reprise<\/p>\n<p>Track: Godwhacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important Note: 5.x Multichannel music is recorded to be played with 5 matched full-range loudspeakers and no subwoofer. So, if you&#8217;re listening to these, turn off your sub and your bass-management system. If this means that you lose all of your bass, then you should buy better loudspeakers&#8230; ;-) Artist: Pink Floyd Album: Dark Side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P48hIM-y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6992,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/6992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}