MikeK
13-02-2002, 13:38
If you have a 6.1 or 7.1 channel amp, what does the amp do with the centre back channel when just playing a standard 5.1 channel DD/DTS disc.
The reason I ask is that I currently have 4 speakers on the rear two channels (2 on each channel) to spread the rear soundfield out (which works very well IMO).
However, the setup could easily be adapted for a 7.1 channel amp such as a Denon 3802, but I don't want 5.1 soundtracks to just be reproduced from the extreme right and left rear speakers with nothing coming out of the inside right and left - which would really then be the single centre back channel thru two speakers. It sounds very two dimensional like that, and is why I originally moved to a 4 speaker setup at the rear.
Most of my discs are plain 5.1 anyway, so I wouldn't want to invest in a 7.1 ch amp, and then find that 5.1 performance was actually worse - and I can't really be bothered with speaker switches etc.
Does the amp detect 6.1 automatically, or is there a manual setting so you can leave it in 6.1 mode all the time and get a sort of prologic type effect like with a standard DPL amp?
The reason I ask is that I currently have 4 speakers on the rear two channels (2 on each channel) to spread the rear soundfield out (which works very well IMO).
However, the setup could easily be adapted for a 7.1 channel amp such as a Denon 3802, but I don't want 5.1 soundtracks to just be reproduced from the extreme right and left rear speakers with nothing coming out of the inside right and left - which would really then be the single centre back channel thru two speakers. It sounds very two dimensional like that, and is why I originally moved to a 4 speaker setup at the rear.
Most of my discs are plain 5.1 anyway, so I wouldn't want to invest in a 7.1 ch amp, and then find that 5.1 performance was actually worse - and I can't really be bothered with speaker switches etc.
Does the amp detect 6.1 automatically, or is there a manual setting so you can leave it in 6.1 mode all the time and get a sort of prologic type effect like with a standard DPL amp?