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Many people have issues with surround speaker placement or the cost of installing more than the standard left and right surround speakers. Before deciding on what to install in your theater you should be aware of the trends in surround formats along with the technical aspects of using and installing a 6.1 or a… Read more
Receivers today offer a large number of selections for audio processing. A common question I get is what processing mode should be used. These modes are intended in general to extract information from the recording to then map it to channels that are not found in the recording, but are in your surround system. … Read more
I recently tested a pair of Astro A40 wireless headphones which many consider the best Dolby Surround headphones out there for home theater use. These cost about $300 with the headphones, transmitter and receiver. The receiver only accepts an optical input and supports 2 channel PCM and Dolby Digital signals. This system supports Dolby surround… Read more
Many people have a home theater where the primary seat is a couch near or against a wall. When you want to install a 7.1 or a 6.1 surround system this presents some serious problems. A 7.1 or 6.1 surround system requires one or two back channel speakers. Most people will either install these in… Read more
I recently had the opportunity to work on a 5.1 surround system that had a new Pioneer receiver with the virtual surround back channel feature. This feature should simulate the left and right back channels by putting part of the sound in the right and left surround channels and creating a synthetic channel between the left… Read more
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