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Artiest : The Alan Parsons Project
Titel : Stereotomy
Soort : DTS CD (zie opmerkingen)

TRACKS

TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Stereotomy"
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Beaujolais"
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Urbania"
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Limelight"
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "In the Real World - NOT UHJ AMB"
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Where's The Walrus ?"
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Light Of The World"
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Chinese Whispers"
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Stereotomy Two"
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "In the Real World - with UHJ Amb conversion"

 
Commentaar Eye of Horus

Dit is de info die ik op Usenet er bij geplaatst heb. I wel in het Engels, maar als dat een probleem is
vertaal ik het wel.....

When this album was released a reviewer of a big American magazine wrote
that he found it mediocre, but at the same it was the best sound he ever heard
on a vinyl LP. He said it was an example of what was possible with vinyls.
Today with 24/96 releases a big deal, but in 1985 it was. He could however
explain the reason why it sounded so bright and crystal clear.
The solution could be found in the liner notes : this was recorded with the
Ambisonics microphones and put on vinyl with UHJ encoding, giving it it's 
excellent sound. UHJ encoding also had the advantage that when you had a 
(rather expensive !) receiver with an UHJ button, it was decoded to 4 channels.
Unfortunately the first releases of this album on CD didn't contain the UHJ
encoding. 

I was reading some old mails and saw a message from one of the guys who recorded
it and who is a big name in Ambisonics land. He told that the remastered Dutch
Collection still had the UHJ encoding. So I thought : if the Dutch one had it,
there is a chance the remsaters from the past years will have it too.
He also told there was one song which was recorded before his involvement and
doesn't have the UHJ encoding.

I ripped the CD and used the UHJ-AMB software to decode it and.....yesssssss !
Full real Ambisonics surround !!
What a treat to the ears ....marvellous.

I had to do song 5 with another method, but added it as song 10 put through the
UHJAMB software, so you can really hear the difference with the other songs.

I have put it on DTS CD with added Center and LFE , but I'm planning a DVDA
too in near future.

Enjoy this release !