Hey Guy's
I have a dedicated screening room and so far I have been using a 5.1 system. Recently I bought a new central speaker and since my material (rotel and nakamichi ) allows me to add speakers, I tried putting a 6.1 system.
I had two issues:
1 - I used the Avia disk that includes 6.1 setting tones. Once I set the system using a DD EX test tone, I tried the DTS ES test tone. Something strange happened. The test tone ES discrete was calibrated correctly but the ES matrix had the side surrounds at 2db lower than the rest of the speakers. Maybe the matrix coding takes away part of the information form the side surround and therefore reduce the volume but that would not make a lot of sense.
2 - I have new dipoles surround (KEF 2ds). I read somewhere that I should have the delay to 0 because they are dipoles. Is that true or should I put the same delay then normal speakers? And how can you test if the delay is correct?
In the event that I want to keep the 6.1 setting, my pre amp Rotel (rsp 1066) create a rear channel for 5.1 sources. Intuitively I believe that this channel should be close to a matrix coding. Does that mean that I should set the surrounds speakers to 2db higher?
Maybe the right way is to use 5.1 for 5.1 coding and 6.1 for 6.1 or 7.1 coding.
I hope somebody can help me.
Thank You
I have a dedicated screening room and so far I have been using a 5.1 system. Recently I bought a new central speaker and since my material (rotel and nakamichi ) allows me to add speakers, I tried putting a 6.1 system.
I had two issues:
1 - I used the Avia disk that includes 6.1 setting tones. Once I set the system using a DD EX test tone, I tried the DTS ES test tone. Something strange happened. The test tone ES discrete was calibrated correctly but the ES matrix had the side surrounds at 2db lower than the rest of the speakers. Maybe the matrix coding takes away part of the information form the side surround and therefore reduce the volume but that would not make a lot of sense.
2 - I have new dipoles surround (KEF 2ds). I read somewhere that I should have the delay to 0 because they are dipoles. Is that true or should I put the same delay then normal speakers? And how can you test if the delay is correct?
In the event that I want to keep the 6.1 setting, my pre amp Rotel (rsp 1066) create a rear channel for 5.1 sources. Intuitively I believe that this channel should be close to a matrix coding. Does that mean that I should set the surrounds speakers to 2db higher?
Maybe the right way is to use 5.1 for 5.1 coding and 6.1 for 6.1 or 7.1 coding.
I hope somebody can help me.
Thank You
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