[LAU] Decoding/ripping dolby surround CDs

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 14:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> PPPS:
> 
> Phases are the ABC of audio engineering, everything that has to do with
> music, has to do with time. Everything is time related, every EQ, just
> everything. There's no math that is able to separate channels by phases,
> assumed the frequencies are all recorded just by audible frequencies and
> not transformed to higher frequencies, by theory transposing to
> inaudible and back to audible frequencies could work. Practical, hm?!
> 
> There already is no perfect backwards compatibility from 2 channels to
> one channel regarding to timing issues, e.g. the +/- 180° thingy. It's
> completely idiotic to add a third channel by what ever time shift to 2
> channels and then to decode this nonsense.
> 
> Unbelievable that this is a serious discussion :(. During the decoding
> there will be overlapping between the clean stereo signal and the third
> channel. Take a pencil and draw 3 sinuses to a paper by your imagination
> and than think about adding the third sinus to the two other sinus. Some
> kind of encoding and decoding, just by an imaginary picture in your
> mind.
> 
> I'm quit now.

Don't get me wrong, we aren't talking about analog telephone, but high
quality recorded and played music.

Quit now :|