Grateful Dead

First double post in a while.. '77 Swing, FE 1/2/1970. Wowwy.

Wow is right.. a one two punch if ever I have seen one. Super stoked for these first two offerings. Just say yes to Plangent.. Kayak Guy is right!

So, we get a phat double-dose right outta the gate into 2019....first, Schwiiiiing!!!!! Then, 1/2/70...??? I mean, that Dark Star knocked me over the first time I heard it....totally epic. The rest of the show....momentum like a rolling freight train.

Good news for a pre-Holiday offering.

Hope The Clan is well!
Sixtus

Looks like we are getting another two from early 1970 as Dave's Picks 30. 2019 is shaping up to be a particularly good year.

If anyone doesn't have the 89 RFK release, I would jump on at $44 right now with the 25 days of Christmas. Great deal and you won't be disappointed. Always loved Phil and Just Like Thumb's Blues. Or you could wait and try to buy in on eBay in a couple years for $300?.

All that fancy talk aside, Van Morrison gunned down the old man with a transistor radio.

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The Warlocks release is the best 89 release they have put out. Two really good shows. This one they used Plangent. Not sure why they have not used this process again for the late 80s or 90s. Hope they go back to it!

But hearing is 3-dimensional, which is why you can tell the direction of a sound.

I think that surround sound is an attempt to produce 3D sound, which helps with movies, and seems to sound pretty good with some concert recordings.

Sam,
My 5.1 is five speakers (center, L R stereo, L R surround) plus the subwoofer.

I have a regular stereo system with 2 speakers and a subwoofer for stereo audio recordings. And a 5.1 home theater system for TV, DVD, Blu-ray. The surround sound works quite well for watching hockey, it does have a 3D sound effect, especially when they crash into the boards.

My head is configured for stereo i.e. I have two ears, one on each side of my head. Maybe I'm missing the point here.

I do not have a surround sound system, but it seems to me that if you want true surround sound you would have to remix the sound to get each instrument or player positioned in the proper speaker, would you not? If there are 5 speakers, you would have 4 for the highs and the midranges and 1 for the base line, is this not correct? I know when I had my quad set up years ago, the albums were mixed to quad sound, that is to say that certain instruments came out of certain speakers, and sometimes they were switched around, moving in stereo you might say. Most of these quad mixes were definitely different that their stereo counterparts and gave a "new and different" sound to the music. Does surround sound do the same thing? I have heard it in stores with movies, but never with just music. It really doesn't seem possible to remix a two track recording to surround sound and have it sound different except that the sound is now coming out of 5 speakers verses just 2 in stereo. I do believe that digital music could be remastered to surround sound but analog tapes, like 2 track or even 8 track, would be very difficult to remaster to get that true surround sound sound. Anybody got any thoughts on this? I have been curious about surround sound, but if it's just to get the sound to come out of 5 speakers instead of 2, doesn't seem like much of an incentive to invest in. Any engineers out there with any info on this topic who would care to enlighten us?