Posted by: Belgand
DTS ES quirk - 12/09/05 05:10 AM
I was watching a movie the other night and having the option of 6.1 DTS ES Discrete I selected it as I tend to prefer DTS tracks to Dolby Digital. After a bit of listening though I noticed that it sounded a bit... flat. Specifically I wasn't noticing anything coming from the surrounds. When I went right over and checked directly I found that I was right, there wasn't any sound coming out of either the left or right surround. I checked with another disc with a 6.1 DTS ES Discrete soundtrack and had the same result.
Perhaps a bit of explanation of my setup is in order since it's a bit unusual for this day in age. Technically I have a quadraphonic system. Not for any particular reason mind you, I'm just a bit poor and after buying a new set of speakers had an old set lying around that could see a bit of use as as surrounds. There is not, however, any sub, center, or rear surrounds.
Checking the settings I found that since it's backwards compatible surround was restored when I switched the audio over to DTS, but dammit, it auto-detects as DTS ES Discrete and aside from losing a channel (or two) in the rear shouldn't it still work properly?
I found that sound was restored to surround on DTS ES when I switched the settings to state that I had rear surrounds thus causing me to believe that for some reason the reciever is choosing to cut out or downconvert to pure stereo mode when rear surrounds aren't specified.
Is this just some odd way of programming the receiver? Is there some sort of highly valid reason for this that I'm just not aware of?
Perhaps a bit of explanation of my setup is in order since it's a bit unusual for this day in age. Technically I have a quadraphonic system. Not for any particular reason mind you, I'm just a bit poor and after buying a new set of speakers had an old set lying around that could see a bit of use as as surrounds. There is not, however, any sub, center, or rear surrounds.
Checking the settings I found that since it's backwards compatible surround was restored when I switched the audio over to DTS, but dammit, it auto-detects as DTS ES Discrete and aside from losing a channel (or two) in the rear shouldn't it still work properly?
I found that sound was restored to surround on DTS ES when I switched the settings to state that I had rear surrounds thus causing me to believe that for some reason the reciever is choosing to cut out or downconvert to pure stereo mode when rear surrounds aren't specified.
Is this just some odd way of programming the receiver? Is there some sort of highly valid reason for this that I'm just not aware of?