Nimbus Records Surround Sound Series Reproduces Ambisonic Recordings with DTS.TWYFORD, England -- UK Classical Music Label Specialist Unlocks UHJ UHJ Universal House of Justice (Institution of the Baha'i Faith) Surround Sound An audio recording and playback system that uses five or more channels plus a subwoofer channel. See 5.1 channel and 3D audio. Back Catalogue back catalogue Noun a musician's previous recordings, as opposed to their current recordings on DVD-Audio With DTS (1) (Digital Theatre Sound) A digital audio encoding system used in movie and home theaters. Popularized by the movie Jurassic Park, the six-channel (5. Pro Series Surround Encoder DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DTSI DTSI Defense Trade Security Initiative DTSI Digital Twin Spark Ignition DTSI Datron/Transco Systems Incorporated DTSI DataTel Solutions, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas) ) announced that Nimbus Records Nimbus Records is a British record company specializing in classical music recordings. Nimbus was founded in 1972 by the late bass singer Numa Labinsky and the brothers Michael and Gerald Reynolds and has traditionally been based at the Wyastone Leys mansion site, near Monmouth and , the UK specialist classical music label, is releasing a set of surround music DVD-Audio titles featuring DTS surround sound, entitled the "Surroundyourselfwith" series. Presenting highlights from Nimbus' extensive catalogue of Ambisonic recordings, the series will feature titles dating back to the early 1970s. Nimbus used the newly released Pro Series Surround Encoder to create the DTS soundtracks. A British-invented system, Ambisonic technology records a 360 degree sound field using a "single point" microphone with four capsules that is then "UHJ-encoded" to provide a two-channel stereo signal, so that it is compatible with all standard playback equipment, but can be decoded back to four-channel surround with the appropriate equipment. Nimbus Records has been recording its classical, world music and Prima Voce archive transfer titles in surround sound using Ambisonic for more than 30 years, and released its earliest recordings on vinyl LP before the advent of CD. While Ambisonic replay in the home was not a commercial success, Nimbus Records continued to make recordings with the system, as the company maintained that it produced the most natural recordings in keeping with the principles of true performance. Recent advances in surround sound and the widespread growth in sales of home theatre systems has enabled Nimbus Records to re-release their Ambisonic recordings on the DVD-A See DVD-Audio. format, therefore allowing playback as originally intended in four channels. "DTS' philosophy has always been to provide sound in keeping with an artist's original intent, and therefore fits well with Nimbus' own fundamental belief that their music recordings sound better in surround," said Gerben Van Duyl, Director of Business Development for Consumer Content, DTS Europe. "By releasing the 'Surroundyourselfwith' series with DTS surround sound, many people will hear these recordings for the first time the way they were originally meant to be heard." "Nimbus chose to encode the recordings in DTS surround sound because it provides superior sound quality and considerable technical compatibility with the original Ambisonic recordings," said Crac Downes, Nimbus Records Head of Recording. "Ambisonics Ambisonics is a series of recording and replay techniques using multichannel mixing technology that can be used live or in the studio. By encoding and decoding sound information on a number of channels, a 2-dimensional ("planar", or horizontal-only) or 3-dimensional depends very much on the phase coherence between the channels -- you need to get the same out when you decode it as you put in when you encoded it. DTS maintains that essential phase coherence." Nimbus Records is initially releasing five discs in the "Surroundyourselfwith" series, comprising selected recordings of music by Elgar, Beethoven, Schubert and Rakhmaninov, and an American Classics compilation with works by Sousa, Copland and Barber. Subsequent releases will include internationally renowned flamenco guitar A flamenco guitar is a type of guitar, built for the purpose of playing Flamenco music. Flamenco guitar can also refer to toque, the guitar-playing part of the art of Flamenco. Both uses are documented on this page. player, Paco Pena, Indian classical music The origins of Indian classical music can be found from the oldest of scriptures, part of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas. Samaveda, one of the four Vedas, describes music at length. Indian classical music has its origins as a meditation tool for attaining self realization. , Rakhmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Noun 1. St. John Chrysostom - (Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407) John Chrysostom , and an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream," including Mendelssohn's incidental music and the essential Enrico Caruso. About DTS Pro Series Encoder The first commercially-available solution for creating high-quality 96kHz and up to 6.1-channel discrete DTS-ES DTS-ES Digital Theater Systems Extended Surround (6.1 channel surround sound) soundtracks, the DTS Pro Series Encoder provides the only 96kHz multi-channel audio solution for video content on DVD-Audio and DVD-Video discs. Presenting solutions for the different workflows utilized in most pro-audio facilities worldwide, the encoders, which were initially announced earlier this year will be available through the DTS international distribution network beginning October 2004 (www.dtsonline.com/pro-audio/find/). About Nimbus Records Classical record label Nimbus Records started LP production for their own recordings in 1977 and quickly gained a reputation for making high quality vinyl pressings. When CD was launched, Nimbus built the first CD factory in the UK and expanded rapidly until Nimbus Manufacturing had additional CD plants in Cwmbran and in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, winning the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement. In 1992, Nimbus sold the manufacturing plants and concentrated instead on the development of CD laser mastering equipment. It was involved in the birth of the DVD format and soon became the market leader, winning the Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1997. In 2001, the technology company was sold and in 2002 the founders returned their attention to the record label and the management of the Wyastone Concert Hall. They established systems for the efficient manufacture of small runs of Nimbus Records titles, making over 200,000 discs in this way in the first two years. Today many of the over 1,000 titles in the Nimbus back catalogue are available once again, including long-deleted recordings, and Nimbus is offering its "disc-on-demand" technology to other labels around the world. www.wyastone.co.uk About DTS Consumer / Pro Audio Division DTS is an innovator in the development of multi-channel digital sound solutions for the consumer electronics and professional audio markets, including home A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and , video games and consoles, broadcast, personal computers and mobile and portable audio systems. Today, every major consumer electronics manufacturer supports DTS technology. Addressing the demand for DTS-encoded content worldwide, DTS also offers hardware and software encoders to the professional audio communities, allowing them to produce DTS audio content directly. About DTS DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (NASDAQ:DTSI) is a digital technology company dedicated to delivering the ultimate entertainment experience. DTS decoders are in virtually every major brand of 5.1-channel surround processors, and there are over 280 million DTS-licensed consumer electronics products available worldwide. A pioneer in multi-channel audio, DTS technology is in home theatre, car audio, PC and game console products, as well as 5.1 Music Discs, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio and DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. software. Additionally, DTS is featured on more than 23,000 motion picture screens worldwide. Founded in 1993, DTS is headquartered in Agoura Hills, California For the unincorporated community, see . Agoura Hills is a city (incorporated in 1982) in Los Angeles County, California, and has the ZIP code 91301. The population was 20,537 at the 2000 census. This city on the Ventura Freeway (U.S. and has offices in the United Kingdom, Japan and China. For further information, please visit www.dtsonline.com. DTS is a trademark of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. |
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