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Posted by kotches (i) on October 27, 2000 at 15:30:59:

In Reply to: How are standard CD's incorporated into 5.1,6.1etc posted by Neophyte on October 27, 2000 at 09:43:00:

The answer....

It depends. Some Pre/Pros take the PCM signal and just transfer it into stereo. Others take the PCM signal and try to decode dolby surround out of it.

With pre/pros in the latter category, you should be able to modify the default behaviour so that it will run in stereo on a PCM source. This isn't difficult, and with these being intended to run as surround controllers I can understand the logic of defaulting to DPL. I don't like it, but I understand it.

Hope this helped.