DTS addicts - look in

Check this baby Full frame I know, but if you love dts that much, espicially in it's es discrete flavour, I don;t think you'll be that bothered.

(Personally, I prefer DD) - flamesuit on!!

How many speakers do i need for that then?

[Geezer]

6.1 so six and a sub.

So, correct me if i am wrong, will the speakers be placed like this?

LS CNTR RS


SUB


RLS RCNTR RRS


Surely if your system is set up well theres no need for a rear centre speaker?

I'm new to this!

[Geezer]

LF.......... CNTR ................RF SUB



RLS...................................RRS

.............. RCNTR



Like that really the rear centre spreads out the sound better

Bur you've got to have the kit the to decode the signal first....dtses discrete decoders are popping up everywhere now. A normal dts decoder will not decode the surround back channel.

[chic]

but the picture is foolscreen

It's a very good price but I prefer something a little more feminine

[tee]

Seems strange that the DVD is full screen but I'm sure the soundtrack will do the business. We saw this a few days ago over at DDDHouse and will hopefully have a review some time soon.........

[sweetmate]

Originally posted by Army Bloke
Bur you've got to have the kit the to decode the signal first....dtses discrete decoders are popping up everywhere now. A normal dts decoder will not decode the surround back channel.

But the audio from the back surround channel is still present when played in 5.1 DTS, it just emanates equally from the rear left and rear right. ES/EX is backwards-compatible with 5.1 decoding.

[groundy]

Originally posted by Geezer
LF.......... CNTR ................RF SUB



RLS...................................RRS

.............. RCNTR



Like that really the rear centre spreads out the sound better

SUB LF.......... CNTR ................RF



RLS...................................RRS

.............. RCNTR

I prefer my layout .

[Confucius]

Originally posted by groundy
SUB LF.......... CNTR ................RF



RLS...................................RRS

.............. RCNTR

I prefer my layout .

SUB LF.......... CNTR ........... RF SUB



RLS ................................... RRS

.............. no rcntr 4 me

Originally posted by sweetmate
But the audio from the back surround channel is still present when played in 5.1 DTS, it just emanates equally from the rear left and rear right. ES/EX is backwards-compatible with 5.1 decoding.

Spot on mate - however this is DTS discrete - so you would lose the rear channel information.....and in reality, no matter what you say or read, you DO need ES decoding equipment to hear the surround back channel as surround back. You can not run a 6th speaker in series or parallel to simulate the SB channel. Only an amp or processor with at least 1 more speaker output will do this - and this will have the ES/EX decoding circuits.....

[sweetmate]

Whether its Discrete or Matrix, the rear surround is never lost. Hence the term backwards-compatible. Try it with Gladiator R1. Play it in 5.1 instead of 6.1 and swap between the DTS-ES Discrete track and the DD-EX Matrix track. You still hear exactly the same surround back information coming from the left and right surrounds.

Essentially it works like this: The surround back info on a DTS-ES Discrete soundtrack is included twice, once as a discrete 6th channel and once as matrix info folded into the left and right surrounds. So a 5.1 amp will play the matrix channel as it is (folded into the surrounds - some call this "phantom"), a 6.1 (non-discrete) amp will retreive the matrix version of the channel and play it from a 6th channel (or 6th and 7th if its THX), and a 6.1 discrete amp will retreive the matrix channel, remove that from the left and right surrounds BUT then play the discrete version of that same channel from the surround back. Thus everyones happy.

[danielzavitz]

that's the way i thought it worked, basically the same as your front three speakers. i can set my amp to turn off the centre channel, and it then distributes speech to the other to front speakers.
good to know for sure though, rather than my wild speculating.