JasonJCarney Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Are those RF52's and an rc52 up front or all 42's? Just curious. Your set up looks nice and clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerocowboy Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 RF-52II, RC-52II in front with the new -41II heights. Surrounds are RB-51II. Thanks! It's a modest setup by the standards of this board and AVS, but oh man am I enjoying it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psg Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 No offense PSG but your 6th channel has nothing on mine... I kid of course however I don't think I could fit a hersey in my cabinet! lol [] Is that rear speaker too close for comfort? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nezff Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 maybe im lost, but why in the world do you have a center channel behind you?[:|] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJCarney Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 No offense PSG but your 6th channel has nothing on mine... I kid of course however I don't think I could fit a hersey in my cabinet! lol Is that rear speaker too close for comfort? No. Sounds good. Plus I have no choice! Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psg Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 maybe im lost, but why in the world do you have a center channel behind you? Used as a rear speaker... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Hello there.... I thought I would continue with the discussion of the 6.1 rear center channel seems that is the theme as of late. You may have not seen many, if ANY of these, so, I dug up my one and only 6.1 BluRay. Here you can see the DTS 'ES' spec in discrete audio.... While the Dolby 'EX' is 5.1 with a mix or matrix to the rear center. All for now.. ............g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nezff Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I meant the look of it. I know what its for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heritage_Head Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Hello there.... I thought I would continue with the discussion of the 6.1 rear center channel seems that is the theme as of late. You may have not seen many, if ANY of these, so, I dug up my one and only 6.1 BluRay. Here you can see the DTS 'ES' spec in discrete audio.... While the Dolby 'EX' is 5.1 with a mix or matrix to the rear center. All for now.. ............g That’s not even HD audio. That’s old old. When you run dts-hd ma ES and you look at the display on a ps3 its 6.1. The pic below is the blu ray player display for DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 ES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 ... I know some fellows here are playing with '9.1' and beyond, but in my mind its like adding more stereo speakers to the mix and not really what the sound engineers have worked on in the studios with a discrete multi channel mix. Its all about separation and truly INDIVIDUAL sounds coming from different places in the room with NO bleed through which is known to happen in matrixing 'blends' , we've all heard this before.. Fwiw, My primary Home Theater experience is converting 5.1 DVD-As and SACDs into "7.1" and on most material it's like having a separate discrete rear channel. {Note: Even 6.1 encoded material sounds better on 2 speakers in the back if it can be set up properly.} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heritage_Head Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Another view of ES That looks pretty discreet to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Hello Reference... Well, I wasn't making a point of the resolution, but just to show it was a discrete 7 channel format and the NEXT expansion if you will over what was the standard DVD audio format of Dolby / DTS 5.1.... fact is, when 6.1 first came out, it was the addition of a center REAR (not higher audio performance per say) of course a DTS decorder had to be present... Far as I know, 6.1 has been dead for a long time..........Heck, we have ENOUGH trouble trying to find a multitude of 7.1 releases. It seems 5.1 MA and HD are more easily found and still very popular on NEW movie and music releases. Is it possible 7.1 may eventually go away ? Some say you don't need anything more then 5.1 and perhaps the studios are thinking this way also? Less expensive for everyone too? Now I noticed that you DO have a 6.1 mode on your display... Should illuminate when correct format called for like any of the newer formats we have today. With a movie like the label I showed, it should fire up the correct decoder and go about its thing. Again, just some thoughts on the subject. [] ...........g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psg Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I meant the look of it. I know what its for. [:$] sorry about that. It fits on the shelf? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Just looked at your recent photo...............Yes, DTS MA is discrete, but its NOT 6.1 ... Its 5.1 or 7.1 ... I am more curious as to what the NON highlighted 6.1 mode does...........as mentioned, by all correctness, you should never see that 6.1 unless you have a 6.1 format in the player... Also, your comment on 'Old Old' ..... Well, we didn't have BluRay in 2004 which was the orginal release date of the movie, however, HD 1080p are the upgrades to this movie and the audio portion is probably original... all for the moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 OH, forgot to mention. When I played that 6.1 movie, I had to use my Onkyo 6.1 receiver.......there was NO HDMI available then.. Likewise, there is no REAR center channel output or decoder present in my newer Onkyo 7.1, so the 6.1 movie may run the back surrounds? Don't know, have not tried it yet... ..........g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heritage_Head Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Just looked at your recent photo...............Yes, DTS MA is discrete, but its NOT 6.1 ... Its 5.1 or 7.1 ... I am more curious as to what the NON highlighted 6.1 mode does...........as mentioned, by all correctness, you should never see that 6.1 unless you have a 6.1 format in the player... Also, your comment on 'Old Old' ..... Well, we didn't have BluRay in 2004 which was the orginal release date of the movie, however, HD 1080p are the upgrades to this movie and the audio portion is probably original... all for the moment... Put in any DTS MA 5.1 ES movie and the blu ray player will decode it into 6.1 channels. ES is 6.1 audio it’s not the same as the old EX. Here is a link to a brand new release in 6.1 audio. The blu ray player has to be able to decode ES or it won’t be 6.1. If you have an old blu ray player that doesn’t support ES then you won’t get 6.1. http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Wars-Blu-ray/14903/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJCarney Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 maybe im lost, but why in the world do you have a center channel behind you? What do you mean by "the look of it"? I have a speaker there as rear surround. The reason for the exact choice of speaker had alot to do with cabinet size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heritage_Head Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 It’s just a name that they chose to use. If I turn everything off but my rears on a 5.1 ES (6.1) movie. Both my rears play the discreet 6th channel. Just to repeat ES = 6.1 it’s just how they label it nothing more nothing less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heritage_Head Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I have 33 blu ray movies that are 7.1 or ES (6.1) http://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?member=Reference_head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Interesting...... Yeah, I figured that the back surrounds would take the 'center' rear.... but you would not be listening to a high resolution audio since its not encoded as such correct ? Great on the bluray 7.1's you have, but how many blurays do you have that are not ?? Out of my very small collection of blurays, only TWO are in 7.1 while the rest are 5.1 ... Also a friend of mine made comment about the DTS vs. the Dolby thing, and it seems that its swung toward more releases in DTS these days. Have you found this to be true in your collection? ...........g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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