SRS is a horse of a different color since it uses a processor to in front of the speakers (pre-amp type set-up) to shape the acoustics. Still I would like to find a way to have the music in SRS in my car and currently SRS makes no car products (well kenwood does but it’s a totally different head unit, that’s not the point) . I was just wondering if there is a way to keep SRS on recorded material…
In other words, yes it uses a processor to shape the music, but why can’t the sound that is emitted through the speakers be preserved on a recordable media?
Is there something special about SRS audio that won’t let it be recorded via standard means? If not, have you tried recording your soundcard’s output into a wav file and then burning it to CD? Or perhaps use a line-out cable to record it to a tape or similar?
Back in the '80s, we discovered that you could make tapes with Carver Sonic Holography encoding if you recorded from the headphone output. Then the tape would have that spatial information on it, and play back anywhere. The effect when played elsewhere depended almost entirely on speaker placement and listener seating, but it worked. Recording from the headphone jack is not a recommended practice, but it does work.
I keep chasing my tail on this one, sad to say I just started to burn my first CD’s not too long ago… I never appreciated Nero’s interface very much and began to think most CD burner applications were going to be similar so I had nothing to do with burning CD’s… just lately something that was originally on my wife’s new laptop was easy as hell to work with… I even pretended to know what I was doing in front of her to add some files to a already burned cd and came out looking like a genius. So I am greatly encouraged in this aspect of CD burning.
SRS systems even in the theaters have processors to create the spatial sound and feel to music, I was thinking if there was a way to record through the speakers it could “embed” the same effect onto media.
However in the “nowhere land” that I’m in I’d be happy just to be able to EQ process a song and have it recorded this way… I’m hand-paddling here, anybody have a set of oars for me? Point the way skipper.