I must say that I am very recent to this forum, but I was previously on two other such Forums. I must say that I am very impressed with TLS Guy. Like you guys have said, he is very intelligent and has a lot of experience in Audio/ Video. My tastes do not match up with some others systems and formats, but it's all good. I'm not much of a two channel guy. Mostly, I use 2 channel in just a few ways. The original SACD discs were Hi Resolution, but no surround sound. As it later evolved to include surround sound, I do have discs that I would use 2 channel; a few times with All Channel Surround. I also own some of the old MFSL diss, some of which are Gold recordings. Excellent, but I use either 2 channel or All Channel. I still have a Turntable, but I rarely use it. It is an older Technics Linear tracking model.
However, mostly I enjoy Surround Sound, whether it's SACD, DVD Audio, Blu Ray Audio. I really enjoy all of these. I have a pretty large collection of these discs. ( see my earlier post here: My post; Surround Sound Collection of discs. This is only part of my collection. One disc in particular is Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, MOJO on Blu Ray Audio. This is an exceptionally recorded disc. Tom uses Ryan Ullayte, Surround Sound Engineer extroidinaire. They went to extreme lengths in the recording process. The surround mix is fantastic. I usually close my eyes while listening to it. My system is separates. An Integra surround processor with an ADA Professional 8 channel HT Amp, rack mount and fan cooled. My subs are a pair of cylindrical tower subs with 12" drivers, and they are powered with the matching HSU 500 watt Sub amp also fan cooled & rack mount. Bass clean down to 16 Hz. This Petty disc has some interesting things going on with it. For one thing, they use a Leslie cabinet for a few songs. This really adds character to a surround mix. If you are familiar with Leslie's. The horn drivers are large and they spin and actually throws the sound out & about according to the speed that it spins. I, also being a fan of Pink Floyd, and having seen them live recall that they also use the Leslie Cabinet which is unlike anything else. You just can't take in what's going on on this disc with only one listening.
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My system which is 10.2, and has height channels, front & rear Center channels, and side channels. In addition, I have a Vocopro Karaoke player. The biggest advantage to my player is the fact that I am using digital optical Toslink for the music, and my player also has analog vocals from both mics. I have spent a lot of time experimenting & tweaking the Karaoke sound. The vocals (which are always analog) goes out via RCA's into a separate Sonance Amplifier, and front & rear vocal speakers, with an EQ in the loop. The sound is seemless and I use All Channel Surround for it. I went to great lengths to blend the Digital & analog sound together. I have in excess of 100 Karaoke CD + G's, with a huge array of musical tastes, but more often then not, I listen to Rock classics from Jimi Hendrix to Pink Floyd & beyond. It goes far back to Elvis. Many types of music. (again, see my list of surround discs in a different thread). Surround Format that I use most often is DTS HD Master Audio.
I appreciate what you guys bring to the table. I don't know many of you guys yet, but hopefully that will change over time.
