Surround sound formats
The AKURATE KONTROL is equipped with a wide range of surround sound formats to enhance your audio experience.
To change the surround sound format:
•Repeatedly press SURR on the handset until the desired format is shown on the front panel display.
The available surround sound formats, and a brief description of each, is as follows:
Surround | Description |
sound format |
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Dolby Digital | A standard for storing 5.1 channels of audio |
| signal on to discs such as |
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Dolby Digital EX | Spreads the surround speaker portion of a Dolby |
| Digital 5.1 audio signal to two back loudspeakers |
| - converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio |
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Dolby Pro Logic II* | Converts any |
| into a surround sound 5.0 signal |
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Dolby Pro Logic II | Same as Dolby Pro Logic II but is particularly |
Music* | suited to music. Features three |
| parameters that are accessed via the AKURATE |
| KONTROL’s setup menus |
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DTS Digital | A standard for storing 5.1 channels of audio |
Surround | signal on to discs such as |
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DTS 96/24 | Same as DTS Digital Surround but offers better |
| audio quality |
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DTS ES Matrix | Spreads the surround speaker portion of a DTS |
| 5.1 audio signal to two back loudspeakers - |
| converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio |
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Surround | Description |
sound format |
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DTS ES Discrete | A standard for storing 6.1 channels of audio |
| signal on to discs such as |
| AKURATE KONTROL the extra channel can be |
| spread over two back loudspeakers - converting |
| 6.1 audio to 7.1 audio |
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DTS 96/24 ES | Higher quality of DTS Digital Surround with the |
Matrix | addition of the surround sound speaker portion of |
| the signal being spread to two back loudspeakers |
| - converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio |
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Phantom | Passes the centre channel portion of a 5.1 or 7.1 |
| audio signal to the front left and right |
| loudspeakers |
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3 Stereo | Downmixes a 5.1 or 7.1 audio signal and passes |
| it to the front and centre loudspeakers only |
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Stereo Sub | Downmixes a 5.1 audio signal to a |
| signal and then routes the signal to the front |
| loudspeakers and subwoofer. Routes a stereo |
| signal to the front loudspeakers and subwoofer |
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MPEG Stereo | A standard for storing |
| MPEG files |
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MPEG Surround | A standard for storing surround sound audio in |
| MPEG files |
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AAC Stereo | A standard for storing |
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AAC Surround | A standard for storing surround sound audio |
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LIMBIK Party | A Linn algorithm that sends essentially the same |
| audio signal to all loudspeakers in your system |
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*You do not need a full surround sound loudspeaker system to hear these formats. If you have more than front loudspeakers (and a subwoofer) in your system, when you select either of these formats the signal will be converted into a 5.0 signal then downmixed to match the number of loudspeakers in your system.
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