Enhancing the sound with Dirac Live toned down the glint in the treble but didn't help the swimming instability in the soundstage. In the last installment of " Music in the Round," I introduced the miniDSP U-DAC8 ($299), an eight-channel USB DAC at 1/10 the price of its nearest competitorgreat news for anyone wanting to start playing multichannel files. It's easy to recommend the AV8802A, despite the bump in cost: It offers cutting-edge features and outstanding sound. If your concern is primarily for music playback, can you do better spending $1000 or so for a separate multichannel preamp? No way. Finally, the decidedly improved analog outputs benefit all audio functions, including analog multichannel pass-through. Its Audyssey calibration is easily competitive and now supports the multiple-speaker configurations of the new immersive formats. The Marantz AV8802A does everything its predecessor did, and more. Maybe there's a future for these formats in home theater, but it will be a hard sell for music lovers.
MAGNIFICAT DOLBY SURROUND 5.1 MOVIE
Similarly, the few movie clips worked very well. Here, the expanded depictions were much more convincing than through just 5.1 channels. On the other hand, both Atmos and Auro-3D were impressive with ambience-only recordings in which they set up microphones in a rainforest or a busy city intersection, to immerse the listener in those aural scenes. I preferred Auro-3D because it had less of an effect on tonal balance than did Dolby Surround, upmixing which also made the center channel more prominent. The effects were similar but more subtle.
Still, I think that if we had a significant body of music in Atmos and/or Auro-3D, we would quickly adapt to this new spaciousness, and miss it when it wasn't there.Īlmost the same can be said about what each of these technologies did with regular stereo and multichannel recordings. My take on all of these, including the Iglesias/Atmos, was that the addition of the height dimension opened up the sound of the recording venue without corrupting the imaging: nice, but not compelling. The Auro-3D music was more wide ranging, from the spacey-synth of Lichtmond's 3: Days of Eternity (Blu-ray, Lichtmond LM022) and the indie-rock synths of Mando Diao's Ælita (Blu-ray, Black Hole 1623) to three Blu-ray discs from 2L Records: Remote Galaxy, music by Flint Beppe with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting a very large Philharmonia Orchestra (2L 100) Spes, a collection of sacred choral music sung by the European a cappella group Cantus (2L 110) and Andre Arnesen's Magnificat for chorus and orchestra, with Anita Brevik conducting the Nidarosdomens Jentekor and the Trondheim Soloists (2L 106). Discounting the audio/video disassociation and my admitted lack of interest in the music, the sound was clean, direct, and of generous if inappropriate ambience. The video cut repeatedly among multiple venues, indoors and outdoors, but the ambience presented never changed. Otherwise, 2 channel stereo is all you are going to get.Auro Technologies sent me a small stack of Blu-ray discs, while Dolby sent along only a single demo discso Atmos was at a disadvantage: The only music track on the Atmos sampler was "Bailando," a music video by Enrique Iglesias. Unfortunately, for the majority of online streaming today, you need an AVR with HDMI ports and DD+ support. And as mentioned very few TVs will convert DD+ to DD. If your AVR doesn't have HDMI ports, it likely doesn't support DD+ either.
MAGNIFICAT DOLBY SURROUND 5.1 TV
I need ALL audio coming from the tv no matter how many channels to go to the AVRĪs mentioned, most content on Roku channels uses Dolby Digital+, which usually cannot be transmitted over optical. Also if your tv doesn’t read it as 5.1 try changing your tv audio settings to see if you can give it some hints.Īlso imho, having a single device plugged in to your AVR seems to defeat the home theatre purpose. So yes, you can do this type of setup but the roku channels supporting real 5.1 are sparse. So far I’ve only seen this on some Netflix originals, not YouTube tv ABC channel, or Hulu (I tried 1 original). My AVR displays a blue light ONLY when it’s real Dolby digital also you can hear the difference. So all sound whether surround or not comes through the AVR cable, ps4, roku, etc. My 5.1 AVR does not have hdmi so I have optical coming from my tv to the 5.1 avr. Just got a roku streaming stick+ with v9.2.0 on it and was looking for some information on this myself.
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