Welcome to Fivedotone

My hobby is listening to music. It is totally useless hobby. Just sitting in the sweet spot and trying to capture the nuances, feelings and emotions. What makes it worse I have become more addicted with multichannel music. It is the format when most of the audiophiles cross their hands and call for an exorcist. Shall there be only two channels - no more - no less.

However, multichannel recordings have been available for about ten years now. That's a pretty long time. One would expect that record companies in general would have learned to make good multichannel recordings. But not. Unfortunately most of the multichannel recordings are bad. It is not about the musicians, but what happens in the recording studios. The whole listening experience is often ruined with unnatural usage of the surround channels. I can understand that it takes time for audio engineers to learn how to make good multichannel recordings. But I do not understand why ten years is not enough to learn that.

Fortunately there's some light in the tunnel. There's also exceptional multichannel recordings. I have found some SACD and DVD-A recordings as very enjoyable. This is what the Fivedotone is all about: enjoyable multichannel recordings. Just the music. No video. I hope that my blog helps other audiophiles to capture my own recommendations of good multichannel music.

Fivedotone addresses openly all the music genres, but classical music definitely has a lot of room in here. The first recording which I'm going to address is Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons by Janine Jansen. I've played the album several times now. I shall publish my more detailed comments about it in the near future.

Happy listening.
- Petri