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Can Ambisonics reproduce DTS Digital Surround?

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Ambisonics cannot contribute to the DTS Digital Surround encoding or decoding processes; it can make contributions before the 5.1 discrete channels are encoded and after they are decoded. DTS Digital Surround is a method of compressing and encoding 5.1 discrete audio channels to make them suitable for transmission using CD, Laserdisc, DAT or DVD. More details are available on the DTS Digital Surround Web page. The 5.
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Can Ambisonics reproduce Dolby Surround AC-3?

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Ambisonics cannot contribute to the Dolby Surround AC-3 encoding or decoding processes; it can make contributions before the 5.1 discrete channels are encoded and after they are decoded. Dolby Surround AC-3 is described in technical publications available on the Dolby Laboratories Inc Web page. These suggest that: AC-3 is a digital encoding technique that exploits "audio masking" to achieve high bit-rate reductions. AC-3 can be used to encode between 1 and 5.1 audio channels.
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What is DTS Digital Surround and do I need this feature?

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DTS Digital Surround is a surround sound format that supports up to 5.1 channels of discrete multi-channel sound. Though it competes with Dolby Digital, DTS is an optional surround sound format that offers audio encoding at higher data rates. Many home theater enthusiasts and industry experts have claimed that DTS is superior to Dolby Digital as a movie soundtrack format.
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What is Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital, and DTS?

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All of these are methods of creating a more convincing soundfield that seems to "surround" the viewer (at least on Laserdisc, see explanation on Dolby Digital). They require more than 2 speakers. The most widespread surround sound system is Dolby Surround. Dolby surround is an analog system that decodes 2 channels into 4 channels, Left, Right, Center and Surround. The center channel is used to anchor dialog to the screen and the surround channels are used to create ambiance.
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Can a DVD recorder record in Dolby Digital or DTS surround sound?

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Consumer grade DVD recorders all have the ability to play back all Dolby Digital and DTS source material, when used with an AV receiver. However, DVD recorders only have analog stereo audio inputs for recording audio, which is then encoded into two-channel Dolby Digital. The output of the recorded audio can be accessed either through the analog stereo outputs or the digital audio outputs of the DVD recorder. Although, DVD recorders cannot record in 5.
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What is DTS Digital?

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Digital Theater Systems is a surround system that offers 5.1 channels of dynamic digital audio. This system on which some DVD disc record movies, reproduce the soundtrack with dynamic hi-fidelity as would be reproduced in a theater.
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Can Ambisonics reproduce Dolby MP?

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Dolby MP encoding, and Dolby Surround and Pro Logic decoding, are all described in the excellent article, Introduction to [Dolby] surround sound written by Bob Niland. The article suggests that: Dolby Motion Picture matrix encoding (Dolby MP) is an encoding system designed for motion picture sound tracks. Four channels are encoded - left, centre, right and a mono surround channel. Dolby Stereo is the two-channel result of this encoding.
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How do I hook up a Bag End Infrasub-18 to my Digital 5.1 Surround system?

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Using the "Bass Management System" on your surround processor, set the front Left and Right speakers to "large" (full range). Connect the Left and Right outputs on the processor to the Left and Right inputs on the Bag End Infrasub-18, respectively. Now, connect the Left and Right hi pass outputs on the Bag End Infrasub-18 to the Left and Right inputs on your amplifier (which powers the front Left and Right speakers), respectively.
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How does 5.1-channel Dolby Digital differ from Dolby Surround?

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The technology behind 5.1-channel Dolby Digital provides two surround channels, instead of the one from Dolby Surround, for more precise localization of sounds and a more convincing, realistic ambience. Also, Dolby Digital's surround channels cover the entire audible range (20 Hz-20,000 Hz), whereas the range of Dolby Surround's single surround channel is limited (100 Hz-7,000 Hz). The increased range of Dolby Digital further heightens realism and gives sound mixers more creative freedom.
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Can Ambisonics decode Dolby Surround AC-3?

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Dolby Surround AC-3 does not use matrixing and the five audio channels have complete separation. Sadly, this is not sufficient for realistic surround sound reproduction, the problem being the "pair-wise" mixing style. Dolby Surround AC-3 is just a delivery mechanism and is not tied to pair-wise mixing, however, to date all Dolby Surround AC-3 movie sound tracks have been mixed using the pair-wise mixing style.
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Can you explain this Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround, Dolby Pro Logic, DTS stuff in plain English?

Almost every DVD contains audio in Dolby Digital format. DTS is an optional audio format that can be added to a disc in addition to Dolby Digital audio. Dolby Digital and DTS can store mono, stereo, and multichannel audio (usually 5.1 channels). Every DVD player in the world has an internal Dolby Digital decoder. The built-in 2-channel decoder turns Dolby Digital into standard analog stereo audio, which can be fed to almost any type of audio equipment (receiver, TV, boombox, etc.
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What is Dolby Digital & DTS?

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Dolby Digital & DTS (Digital Theatre Systems) are two different sound formats found on DVD (although DTS to a lesser extent, unfortunately). Both formats offer up to 6.1 channels of high quality surround sound but thanks to less compression DTS edges slightly ahead of Dolby Digital in terms of quality. Yes. Selected DVDs contain Dolby Digital &/or DTS soundtracks with an additional centre rear channel ? these are known as Dolby Digital EX & DTS-ES.
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Is there any differences between Dolby Digital and DTS?

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Dolby Digital has been selected as the default format for DVD video, standard 2 channel audio playback and HDTV ??Digital broadcasting??. Dolby Digital features two independent surround channels giving same full range as the three front channels. Plus it adds a Low Frequency Effect channel ??LFE??. Dolby Digital accomplishes this by using a technique called compression. Digital Theater Systems ??DTS?? uses the same concept but implements a lower compression rate.
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How can I get Dolby Digital or DTS, is it even possible?

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The Xbox does support Dolby Digital 5.1 channel surround sound while playing games, as well DTS while playing DVDs. To get DD 5.1 or DTS you will need the official Xbox Advanced AV Pack (which also supports S-video), or the official Xbox High Definition AV Pack.
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What's the difference between Dolby Digital and DTS?

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Dolby Digital is 16 bits of PCM Linear Tracking that is compressed. DTS is 20 bits of Master quality audio that is not compressed. Dolby Digital and DTS are similar in that they are both digital lossy audio coding technologies, which means they use "perceptual" data reduction techniques that are based on the characteristics of human hearing to mask the process, thereby preserving high fidelity sound. This is necessary in order to fit the typical 5.
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What is Dolby Digital Surround?

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Initially known as simply Dolby Surround, this is an audio mixing technique that bolts on a rear channel and a centre channel onto a standard two-channel signal. With a two speaker sound system, these extra channels will be automatically mixed into the audio streams for the left and right speaker
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This is an audio mixing technique that bolts on a rear channel and a centre channel onto a standard two-channel signal. With a two speaker sound system, these extra channels will be automatically mixed into the audio streams for the left and right speaker
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Dolby Digital Surround EX provides a third surround channel on Dolby Digital movie soundtracks. The third surround channel can be decoded at the home viewer's option for playback over surround speakers located behind the seating area, while the left and right surround channels are reproduced by surround speakers to the sides. To maintain compatibility, the back surround channel is matrix-encoded onto (or from!) the left and right surround channels of an otherwise conventional 5.
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Are there other methods of encoding surround besides the Dolby and DTS methods?

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Yes, there are several others that have been tried over the years but haven't been widely accepted for one reason or another. These are: Ambisonics - Ambisonics is the work of a group of British academics, most notably Michael Gerzon, who built on the previous work of famed audio pioneer Alan Blumlein.
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I find 4.1, 5.1, and 6.1 surround sound Dolby DD, DTS, and AC3 to be confusing. How is it set up?

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A:Your PC or Mac will need to be equipped with a 3rd party 5.1 surround sound card to be fully functional. You may use a 4.1 surround card, or a 2 channel sound card for basic functionality. Simply attach your PC or Mac with an optical output to the Edifier S2.1, S5.1 and S5.1M via RCA cables or optical cable in the case of the S2.1D model. If your PC or Mac supports Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS, the Edifier S5.1 and S5.1M will allow you to enjoy surround sound.
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Will any of the systems pass through either Dolby Digital or DTS?

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Yes, all of our systems can perform pass-through via Digital Coax or Optical connection to your reciever. SLI will not improve either the performance or picture quality of HDTV. It provides significant performance increases in playing high-end video games and allows you to play these games in HDTV level resolutions
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The disc says Dolby Digital. Why do I get 2-channel surround audio?

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Some discs (many from Columbia TriStar) put 2-channel Dolby Surround audio on track one and 5.1-channel audio on track two. Unless you intervene, the player will play the default 2-channel track. Use the audio button on the remote or select the 5.1 track from the menu. (Note: The Sony 3000 has a feature to automatically select the first 5.1 track.)
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What is DTS?

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DTS (Digital Theatre System) is, like Dolby Digital, a type of digital multi-channel sound system used to present movies in cinemas. Dolby adapted their digital sound format (known as DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 or AC-3) for use in home entertainment and DTS is now starting to do this also. At this stage, however, Dolby's digital system is still the audio standard used by most studios. However the availability of dual DD5.
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DTS stands for Digital Theater Systems and it is the reduced-bit encoding method introduced to the world with the movie Jurassic Park. Like Dolby Digital, DTS offers up to 5.1 channel capability with each channel separate and independent. Unlike Dolby Digital whose code is printed on the film stock between the sprocket holes and uses a data rate of 324 kilobits per second, DTS sound is encoded at a much higher bit rate and is stored on a CD-ROM disc.
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