"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article , Keith G
wrote:
It is impossible to describe the *3D* quality - speech was coming
direct from the actor's mouths (not uncommon, I know)

ITYM from the centre of the speakers.


No! Straight from their mouths on the TV screen - that's the whole point!!
(The TV was close up and off to one side, the speakers much further back!)


It's mono in 99.9% of the progs on
TV. If you're hearing it coming from the actor's mouths, you're fooling
yourself.


Yes, of course - that's how it works!! (It's mind over matter! :-)

You/one can normally 'reset' sound by closing your eyes and centering on it,
but my point here is that the illusion won!



but the rest of the sounds were laid out with perfect separation, depth
and clarity.

Be nice if you mentioned what you were watching.


No idea, if it was live (I normally watch from my hard disk but rarely watch
a whole prog in one go) - if it was last night, could it have been summat
like 'Spooks'..??? (Which I've never seen, but am aware of!)



(It
was better than I have ever heard from any 'surround sound'..!!)

Nothing unusual there. I've yet to hear domestic surround which I prefer
to stereo. They all mess up the important bit - the front sound stage, to
some extent. Only one I liked was Ambisonics.


Never heard that myself...