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Originally posted by dnewma04:

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I'm not exactly sure I followed. There is very little music recorded in any surround format. To use it requires special processors. If you don't have those processors, the speakers in back will not give you the surround sound effect. Besides, the point of surroud sound is not to put you in the middle of the band on stage. It's to try to recreate the reflections of sound and increase the ambience of the recording.

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Yeah.. what he said.

Actually, DTS is trying to help 5.1 (not 6.1) get into the car audio scene. They worked with USACi to develop a competition based on a 5.1 system. Again, the point of 5.1 is only to get the appropriate sonic reflections of a room to come from their appropriate direction. It is not to make you one of the performers on the stage itself. The problem is that there is very little music publicly available that was recorded with true 5.1 mic placements and even fewer still that sound good.

Beyond that, there aren't any CD-only players that I know of that can provide a 5.1 signal to an outboard processor, let alone do the processing itself.

Oh, and since you're so curious about what to use for your surround sound system, answer me this: what are you going to use for your front center channel? And more importantly, where are you going to put it?

I think we're still a little ways away from true multi-channel surround systems being done on a regular basis in the car. Until then, just give me my 2 channel system with all the speakers in front of me. When done correctly, it can still make you feel like you're really at the performance.