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Surround Spectacular - The Music / The Tests --- 1995-03-21

Playing Time: Disc 1 - The Music: 66:31 Disc 2 - The Tests: 58:47 Warning: Protect your speakers! Some of the tracks on this program contain sounds which could cause damage to your speakers if played at too high a volume level. Stereo Review, a publication of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, reserves all rights to the test tones and other materials provided by David Ranada for this disc (Disc 2, tracks 8-49). Copyright © 1995 Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, Inc. Disc 2, tracks 1-7 are Copyright © 1995 by Brad Miller, Mobile Fidelity Productions of Nevada Special thanks to: Louise Boundas, Editor In Chief, Stereo Review Anthony Grimani, Lucasfilm, THX Robert S. Warren, Roger Dressler and Steven A. Thompson, Dolby Laboratories

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Sound Effects From "Surround Spectacular" - Delos DE 3179

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT8NSOF8Fxk

Tracklist

Disc 1 - The Music in Dolby Surround

Also Sprach Zarathustra (Excerpt)

Roman Festivals: Ottobrata (Excerpt)

Bantu

Alma Redemptoris

Water Music: Alla Hornpips

Toccata In D Minor, BWV 565

Lohengrin: Prelude To Act III

Grand Canyon Suite: On The Trail (Excerpt)

Fanfare For The Common Man

Requiem: Sanctus

Gymnopédie No. 1

Arabesque No. 1

Serenade For Winds: Minuet (Excerpt)

The Four Seasons: Autumn: Movement III

Porgy And Bess Medley (Summertime) (Excerpt)

The Three Cornered Hat (Excerpt)

Stabat Mater: Movement V (Excerpt)

Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring

O Hear Us, Lord

Dies Natalis (Excerpt)

1812 Overture (Excerpt)

Disc 2 - The Tests

Sound Effects

Jet Flyover (USMC MkLk, Bangalors & FA-18s)

Fire Department Code 3

Canadian Pacific Railroad

Hawaiian Surf

Light Rain With Thunder

WW II Aircraft (Reno Air Races)

Steam Locomotive 4501 Passes In A Thunderstorm

Stereo Setup And Imaging

Stereo Channel Identification

Stereo Phase

Stereo Balance

Left-Right Frequency Balance

Stereo Center Imaging

Stereo Half-Left & Half-Right Imaging

Continuous Wideband Stereo Pan

Stepped Wideband Stereo Pan

Continuous Narrowband Stereo Pan

Stepped Narrowband Stereo Pan

Speaker Comparison Level-Matching

Subwoofer Evaluation And Setup

Low-Frequency Sweep With Voiceover

Low-Frequency Sine Wave Sweep With Harmonic

Subwoofer Level (With Meter)

Subwoofer Phase: 200 Hz

Subwoofer Phase: 160 Hz

Subwoofer Phase: 125 Hz

Subwoofer Phase: 100 Hz

Subwoofer Phase: 80 Hz

Subwoofer Phase: 62 Hz

Subwoofer Blend (Slow)

Subwoofer Blend (Fast)

Surround Sound Setup And Imaging

Surround-Sound Channel Identification

Surround-Sound Speaker Balance

Surround-Sound Speaker Balance With Subwoofer

Surround-Sound Center Speaker Phase

Surround Half-Left & Half-Right Imaging

Ambience/Reverberation Clicks

Continuous Wideband Surround-Sound Frontal Pan

Stepped Wideband Surround-Sound Frontal Pan

Continuous Narrowband Surround-Sound Frontal Pan

Stepped Narrowband Surround-Sound Frontal Pan

Reference Tones

Band-Limited Pink Noise

Stereo Pink Noise

Left-Channel Pink Noise

Center-Channel Pink Noise

Right-Channel Pink Noise

Surround-Channel Pink Noise

Left-Channel Match Tone

Center-Channel Level-Match Tone

Right-Channel Level-Match Tone

Surround-Channel Level-Match Tone

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Delos

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By Kyle Larson