Natural mode, is it 5.1 or 7.1?

[MIB]

I was wondering after the latest updat if natural is all 7 speakers or still fronts and centres only in a 7.1 system, I thought it was front, centre and rear?

[Chris D]

Should be a 5.1 output. The only 7.1 output you're going to get is either DPLIIx or pure direct with a 7.1 analog source.

[jprafter]

Doesn't Party mode output to all 7 channels?

[Chris D]

FWIW, here's the quote out of page 13 of the C1 manual:

Music Modes: Spatial effects, available only with two-channel signals. Natural generates 5.1-channel surround from stereo signals without adding reverberation. Club and Concert extract ambient information from the signal and add reverberation, to make the music sound as if performed in aall to medium or large space, respectively. The amount of reverberation can be adjusted through Audio Setup (page 24). Party feeds duplicated front-channel stereo signals to the surround (but not surround back) speakers; this spreads the sound more uniformly throughout the room.