Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions 7.1 rear surounds no sound

OK, got a chance to play a bit on the weekend. Here's what I found with PLIIX Music:

Panorama - sounded neat (more hall like) but not as natural as I would like (varied with source material), so decided to leave it off

Dimension - I had the same observation as you Chris - seems to move the soundstage forward or backwards - I ended up leaving it at default as well.

Center Width - found a setting of 2 or 3 works in my room to blend the center with the L&R and not have the vocals shackled to the center channel alone.

Once these tweaks were made and similar tweaks to Neo6 Music, I found there was little to decide between the 2 modes. I now like PLIIX Music much better than I previously did.

On a side note - I realised I must remember to turn my center back down to its true calibration setting for music as it's normally bumped up a few dB for movies.

Cheers,

Neverbored - glad you got the configuration issue solved. I have taken note of that for any future BRD player I may deal with. Thanks for asking the question

The secondary audio mixing isn't a problem for the PS3; the PS3 Slim can even quickly switch to PCM from bitstreaming when called upon to mix. Hopefully in the future more players will have enough DSP power to perform the same.

Fully agreed Chris. That's part of the reason I have just remained with my PS3 doubling as BRD player. I have a hard time justifying why I would pay for another device that does what my PS3 already does. Lack of good upconversion & fan noise are my only reasons so far for not being 100% happy with the PS3, but then I primarily rent/buy blu-ray so upconversion becomes a very small issue.

Yes, Dan; I use DPLII Music for all sources with the settings you described. Panorama, which is sort of a half-way step toward all-channel stereo, since it adds some of the regular in-phase front channel material(intended to be reproduced from front speakers)to the surrounds, should be left off.