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In Reply to: Re: Please help an HT Newbe with center channel question posted by BrianC on January 27, 2002 at 09:02:22:
The DVD player downmixes the 5.1 multichannel mix to 2 channels, therefore all 5 channels are dumped into a stereo mix. I've heard downmixing many times, and it can vary from very good to awful. Even this resulting mix is intended to be decoded by a DPL (Dolby Pro Logic) decoder, so it's really not meant to be played w/o center & rear channels.Often times, the channel balances on the downmix are all over the place; you could have the center mix buried below the rear/surround mix, etc. It's just the way backwards compatabilty was covered...
I think it's just a problem that you're going to have to deal with, if you're not willing to do multichannel for theater playback. I have separate music/theater systems, as I found I never could get a theater setup that did music to my satisfaction...and vise versa.
Regards,
Kevin
Follow Ups:
Kevin,Thanks again for your input. Your giving me serious reason to consider going to multi-channel.
What your saying about good 2 ch. mix vs. bad 2 ch. mix makes sense. It would explain why some movies seem OK on my system, and some are incomprehensible.
So my next question is; if I go to surround sound, will the quality of the sound track be more consistent, or will I still have the same problem of losing the voices? Or to put it another way, is it just as likely that a video will have a bad 5 channel mix, or is it just sloppiness on the downmix to 2 channel that causes the spotty quality?
Thanks,
Brian
Generally speaking, a 5.1 setup will eliminate or at least reduce your problems. Now, that's not to say you won't still have the occasional action flick where the dialog is just buried in the mix- it does happen.Having 4 channels roaring with special effects and dialog coming out the center channel can still be hard to make out at times, but at least then you're receiving the dialog from a point source. And many betters receivers/procs have a "dialog enhancer" mode to combat that very issue (don't like them myself, but they are an option).
Regards,
Kevin
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