Comments on: Stereo and Surround Speaker Placement http://audiodesignlabs.com/wordpress/2008/05/stereo-and-surround-speaker-placement/ Award Winning OEM Audio Product Design Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:54:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim Davis http://audiodesignlabs.com/wordpress/2008/05/stereo-and-surround-speaker-placement/comment-page-1/#comment-1009 Jim Davis Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:49:17 +0000 http://audiodesignlabs.com/?p=12#comment-1009 Thank you, Pascal. Your answer may help me in choosing a receiver as well. We have been advised to get a 2nd Zone receiver in order to play stereo music outside on our new deck while the surround sound video may be in use inside the house. I wish you a happy holiday, as well! Jim Thank you, Pascal. Your answer may help me in choosing a receiver as well. We have been advised to get a 2nd Zone receiver in order to play stereo music outside on our new deck while the surround sound video may be in use inside the house.

I wish you a happy holiday, as well!

Jim

]]> By: Pascal Sijen http://audiodesignlabs.com/wordpress/2008/05/stereo-and-surround-speaker-placement/comment-page-1/#comment-1008 Pascal Sijen Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:51:18 +0000 http://audiodesignlabs.com/?p=12#comment-1008 <strong>Hello Jim:</strong> Thank you for your question. The question you asked seems simple enough, but the answer largely depends on how you have your 5.1 system configured. Typically when people play a 2-channel music CD, they don't pay much attention to the processing mode their receiver or surround processor is set to. This means that invariable it ends up being left in the Dolby Surround mode which was used for TV or DVD viewing and in this mode the receiver will attempt to decode the stereo CD to surround. Because of how this process works, a lot of information can get sent to the center channel. If you prefer to listen to your stereo music CDs without any surround decoding (or other surround processing) and therefore without the center channel (and also typically without the surround speakers), you will need to select the "Stereo" setting in the receiver when listening to CDs. You can also check to see if another surround processing mode, which doesn't implement the center channel, but still uses L&R and surrounds speakers, is available. I would check the manual for your surround system, to see how this can best be accomplished. Depending on your receiver, it may remember the settings between different inputs or you may be able to assign specific processing modes to certain inputs. I hope this helps to answer your question. <em>Happy Holidays!</em> Pascal Hello Jim:

Thank you for your question.

The question you asked seems simple enough, but the answer largely depends on how you have your 5.1 system configured. Typically when people play a 2-channel music CD, they don’t pay much attention to the processing mode their receiver or surround processor is set to. This means that invariable it ends up being left in the Dolby Surround mode which was used for TV or DVD viewing and in this mode the receiver will attempt to decode the stereo CD to surround. Because of how this process works, a lot of information can get sent to the center channel. If you prefer to listen to your stereo music CDs without any surround decoding (or other surround processing) and therefore without the center channel (and also typically without the surround speakers), you will need to select the “Stereo” setting in the receiver when listening to CDs. You can also check to see if another surround processing mode, which doesn’t implement the center channel, but still uses L&R and surrounds speakers, is available.

I would check the manual for your surround system, to see how this can best be accomplished. Depending on your receiver, it may remember the settings between different inputs or you may be able to assign specific processing modes to certain inputs.

I hope this helps to answer your question.

Happy Holidays!

Pascal

]]> By: Jim Davis http://audiodesignlabs.com/wordpress/2008/05/stereo-and-surround-speaker-placement/comment-page-1/#comment-1007 Jim Davis Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:36:32 +0000 http://audiodesignlabs.com/?p=12#comment-1007 Thank you for your informative posting. I hope you or others can clarify for me whether the center speaker in a 5.1 Dolby surround sound system puts forth any sound when a cd music disc is played through the surround system. We wish to position the center speaker above or below the HD television with a solid door to cover it when we are not using the television monitor. It appears from all that I have read that the side and surround speakers emit the stereo music without using the center speaker, but I need to confirm this in order to place a solid door in front of the center speaker without hindering any music that may come from it. Can you clarify this for me please? Thank you for your informative posting. I hope you or others can clarify for me whether the center speaker in a 5.1 Dolby surround sound system puts forth any sound when a cd music disc is played through the surround system. We wish to position the center speaker above or below the HD television with a solid door to cover it when we are not using the television monitor. It appears from all that I have read that the side and surround speakers emit the stereo music without using the center speaker, but I need to confirm this in order to place a solid door in front of the center speaker without hindering any music that may come from it. Can you clarify this for me please?

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