{"id":8034,"date":"2003-06-13T00:22:56","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2003-06-13T00:22:56","modified_gmt":"2003-06-13T00:22:56","slug":"steven-berlin-johnson-geeks-out-with-his-stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8034","title":{"rendered":"Steven Berlin Johnson geeks out with his stereo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven B. Johnson, author of <i>Emergence<\/i> and former Feed honcho, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenberlinjohnson.com\/movabletype\/archives\/000078.html\">describes<\/a> his six-channel sound system in loving detail, and basically invites every thug in New York to come rip off his new Plasma TV. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Unfortunately, it&#8217;s very hard to track down true surround disks of music that I actually like &#8212; it seems like there are only about 100 SACD disks released thus far, and many of them only have two-channel mixes on them. But this past weekend I managed to get my hands on a six-channel SACD of Beck&#8217;s lovely Sea Change, which was already on heavy rotation in my house in its two-channel presentation. Apparently, the mix was done by surround legend Elliot Scheiner, and it&#8217;s certainly an aggressive approach. Some surround mixes keep most of the instruments and vocals up front, and just use the rear speakers for ambient noise and reverb, etc. Scheiner&#8217;s remix of Sea Change spreads the instruments around you: a clavinet behind your right ear, a bank of strings hovering in the middle of the room, a hammond organ swirling around the entire space. Hearing an album you&#8217;ve enjoyed for a while in stereo remixed this boldly is a revelation: you hear all the little details with an astonishing clarity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven B. Johnson, author of Emergence and former Feed honcho, describes his six-channel sound system in loving detail, and basically invites every thug in New York to come rip off his new Plasma TV. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s very hard to track down true surround disks of music that I actually like &#8212; it seems like there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steven Berlin Johnson geeks out with his stereo.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}