![]() ![]() ![]() The initial e-onkyo music offering of 100 titles is mostly classical music. The promised selection of high-resolution 24-bit/96-kHz or 24-bit/192-kHz 5.1-channel Dolby TrueHD recordings may turn out to be overly optimistic most of today's rock recordings are 24-bit/48-kHz files. I wonder how e-onkyo music plans on getting a sizable catalog of 5.1-channel recordings. So now we have the news that is preparing to launch a new high-resolution Dolby TrueHD download service on May 30. I really enjoyed Steven Wilson's recent 'Grace for Drowning' music-only surround Blu-ray the man really has a knack for mixing 5.1 music, but I can't think of anyone else making great new surround recordings. The Blu-ray format has now been around for six years, and you can count the number of new music-only 5.1 releases on your fingers (live-in-concert, surround-sound videos are much more common). Very, very few surround releases were initially recorded in surround most rock and jazz titles are remixed from older stereo recordings. Steve Guttenberg Multichannel music formats - starting with quadraphonic LPs and tapes in the early 1970s, DTS encoded surround CDs in the 1990s, and DVD Audio and SACD in the early 2000s - have all suffered from a lack of consumer demand. ![]() At the end of May, Onkyo will start selling, first in Japan, and by the fall of this year worldwide. ![]()
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