A number of other films list Q-Sound in their credits, but I can't recall which films. The original AC-3 LD of The Doors used the same mix as the Cinema Digital Sound prints, as did the DVD - I recently got the Blu-ray and it uses the same mix (thankfully) so the Q-Sound effects can still be heard. Q Sound was used on the 70mm 4-track Mag and both the 35mm and 70mm 4-track Cinema Digital Sound prints of the film The Doors to create audio effects that normal discrete surround could not during the drug tripping scenes. So to hear them as they were meant to be heard, play them in stereo, without any decoding. Same goes for virtual headphone systems such as Dolby Headphone - it doesn't sound like I'm listening to 5 speakers in a room, just a weird effect that isn't very pleasant.Īnyway, for the Telarc discs, Q-Sound and Spatializer are not matrix surround encoded recordings, although the phase effects of the processes will make them decode well into some sort of surround sound.
The systems bug me because I cannot hear them - the sound might seem wider or more phasey, but I cannot localize virtual sounds anywhere around me like most people seem to be able to do.
Brad Miller used to take pot shots at the 2channel virtual surround systems like Q Sound in his Widescreen Review articles. Telarc used Spatializer in combination with Dolby/Shure or Circle Surround on quite a few releases - I think, although I just got up so I may be wrong, that some of the Telarc DTS CD's have the Spatializer logo in the credits. Spatializer is the same but in its case it was designed to be mixed with Dolby Surround encoded signals to give a 'better than surround' effect and if you don't have a surround set up, you still get the 2 speaker virtual surround. I've probably got it already but wanted to be sure I had one with Q Sound on label just in case the one I have doesn't (knowing my luck!)Ĭlick to expand.sad to say but Q-Sound isn't really a surround sound process - its just one of those virtual 'surround sound from 2 speakers" effects that doesn't require any sort of decoding - nor does it decode into anything like what its supposed to sound like when played through a decoder. it has Q Sound + Logo on disc itself) for £2.
#DOLBY 5.1 CD PLUS#
** Prompted by bmoura's "Roger Waters - Amused To Death" SACD thread, I went a-hunting for the Q Sound encoded Amused To Death CD in a thrift store and found it, in great shape, for £3 (it has "Q Sound" and Q Sound logo on disc itselfĪnd 'so-small-blink-and-you'd-miss-it' QSound logo top right hand corner of rear inlay.), plus I picked up Madonna's Immaculate Collection (also in Q Sound, afaik. These are a rather fun very recent accident/discovery for me, I never knew they existed before on Telarc, I've seen the likes of Tomita on RCA Dolby encoded CD's and so on before but not these Telarc releases. * Another one of those Telarc "Surround Sound" encoded CDs, which I just picked up in a thrift store on the way home for £3. The Immaculate Collection - Madonna (Q Sound CD) **,Īmused To Death - Roger Waters (Q Sound CD) **,Īway From The Sun - 3 Doors Down (DVD-Audio/Non-DualDisc version). Symphony No.6: "Tragic" - Mahler/Levi/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Telarc "Surround Sound" CD) *, Systematic Chaos: Special Edition - Dream Theater (CD + 5.1 Dolby DVD-V), Great Tenor Arias (Verdi, Gluck, Rossini, Donizetti) - Juan Diego Florez (Hybrid MultiCh SACD),
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