surround sound question

[John and Chris]

After setting up a surround sound system I discovered my cd's did not feed
the side speakers. Is it true that in order to gain this feature (true
surround sound) I need to buy dvd music disks. In which case how do I ID
these disks on a shop shelf. Do they have an identifying logo?
thanks

[Gadgets]

Most CDs are just stereo - ie just front L/R. To get sound out of surround
speakers, your amp may be set to duplicate the stereo field for the
rears/sides, or you could use Pro Logic I/II or Neo6 processing to take some
of the 'out of phase' sound (reverbs, echo etc) and send that to the rears
for a fake surround effect. Also the DSP (digital signal processing) modes
such as rock, hall, jazz or whatever may put a bit of noise into the
sides/rears. Generally I just prefer stereo being duplicated - anything
else is just a distortion!

If you actually want properly encoded surround audio CDs, they exist but are
rare in shops... www.cdpacific.com have a few. Some are Dolby Digital/AC-3
and a few are DTS encoded.

I have tried Midnight Oil's Capricornia which sounds great as a 6.1 discrete
DTS-ES Audio CD. Check that your amp handles DTS sound before getting one
like that though because there are no other audio options...

Cheers, Jason (remove wrx to reply)
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[jrh351]

Hello

re Midnight Oil's Capricornia is this a SACD or a DVD A or is it something different again. ?

thanks john

[Gadgets]

On 16-Apr-2004, jrh351 <jrh351.14sfj1@no-mx.forums.eyo.com.au> wrote:
> re Midnight Oil's Capricornia is this a SACD or a DVD A or is it
> something different again. ?

Audio CD... unusual eh?

I've put a 150KB cover scan up here: http://gadgetaus.com/oils.jpg
Note that 5.1 is on the front and 6.1 on the back... they screwed that up.
Guess the cover artist didn't know what he/she was doing! It is 6.1
discrete...

Cheers, Jason (remove shop to reply)
Macrovision Disablers: http://gadgetaus.com
DVD Rentals online: http://webflicks.com.au/?u=47905