I'm reading Floyd Toole's chapter on multichannel and trying to understand what surround sound layouts for music listening is preferred. I will reiterate that my music recordings are not multichannel in any way, I am purely experimenting with different surround sound layouts to increase envelopment.(Perhaps my well treated room is taking the life out of my music)
Anyway, point is that with my available resources at this time I can try 4 speakers in the front or the standard 5.1 layout. In his book these two layouts are highly praised and not much different when compared to the 4 speakers with a centre option which was deemed just as good as the 5.1 with the rear speakers at +120 degrees.
My question is, did the 4 speakers at the front(with or without a centre) use any upmixing or decoding during the experiment?
And if I do go down this track there is no option with JRSS in Jriver to have 4 speakers at the front so I am limited, and I am hazarding a guess that the Jriver JRSS doesn't account for this...?
And lets say I do use a home theatre receiver route, I suppose I can use the height channels for the extra 2 at the front but would the decoding take this into account? And do I need this decoding?
Anyway, point is that with my available resources at this time I can try 4 speakers in the front or the standard 5.1 layout. In his book these two layouts are highly praised and not much different when compared to the 4 speakers with a centre option which was deemed just as good as the 5.1 with the rear speakers at +120 degrees.
My question is, did the 4 speakers at the front(with or without a centre) use any upmixing or decoding during the experiment?
And if I do go down this track there is no option with JRSS in Jriver to have 4 speakers at the front so I am limited, and I am hazarding a guess that the Jriver JRSS doesn't account for this...?
And lets say I do use a home theatre receiver route, I suppose I can use the height channels for the extra 2 at the front but would the decoding take this into account? And do I need this decoding?