Madrigal Imaging AVP2 owner manual DTS-ES Matrix DTS-ES Discrete

DTS-ES Matrix

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DTS-ES Discrete

The sophisticated bass management provisions in your AVP2 takes these five full range signals plus the deep bass information in the LFE channel, and redirects all this information to whatever speakers can actually reproduce it. Bass management both ensures that you can actually hear what you were intended to hear, and sig- nificantly reduces distortion that likely would result otherwise from bass-limited speakers being overloaded by deep bass they were never intended to reproduce. The result is cleaner, more full-bodied sound than would otherwise be available from most systems.

DTS-ES Matrix is conceptually very similar to Dolby Digital Surround EX. It em- beds an extra, “center back” channel of surround information within the existing two discrete channels of surround, to be extracted by the AVP2 upon playback.

For this reason, DTS-ES Matrix is sometimes called a “6.1 channel” system. It may be used with 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 channel speaker systems.

If you have both surround and either one or two rear channels defined in your speaker configuration, the AVP2 will retrieve this “extra” information and send it to the appropriate speaker(s). If you do not have surround and rear speakers, this “extra” information is folded into the existing surround speakers so you can still hear it, though of course it may not image exactly as intended (since you lack the extra speakers.)

The sophisticated bass management provisions in your AVP2 takes these five, six, or seven full range signals plus the deep bass information in the LFE channel, and redirects all this information to whatever speakers can actually reproduce it. Bass management both ensures that you can actually hear what you were in- tended to hear, and significantly reduces distortion that likely would result other- wise from bass-limited speakers being overloaded by deep bass they were never intended to reproduce. The result is cleaner, more full-bodied sound than would otherwise be available from most systems.

DTS-ES Discrete is is yet another 6.1 channel system, but it differs in one impor- tant way from both Dolby Digital Surround EX and DTS-ES Matrix. It includes an entirely separate sixth, “center back” channel of surround information in the sig- nal being sent to the AVP2 for decoding (rather than “hiding” the information within the other surround channels). This approach provides essentially perfect separation between the various channels of audio, whereas the other two ap- proaches to 6.1 channel sound are somewhat limited in their potential separation. It may be used with 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 channel speaker systems.

If you have both surround and either one or two rear channels defined in your speaker configuration, the AVP2 will retrieve this “extra” information and send it to the appropriate speaker(s). If you do not have surround and rear speakers, this “extra” information is folded into the existing surround speakers so you can still hear it, though of course it may not image exactly as intended (since you lack the extra speakers.)

The sophisticated bass management provisions in your AVP2 takes these five, six, or seven full range signals plus the deep bass information in the LFE channel, and redirects all this information to whatever speakers can actually reproduce it. Bass management both ensures that you can actually hear what you were in- tended to hear, and significantly reduces distortion that likely would result other- wise from bass-limited speakers being overloaded by deep bass they were never intended to reproduce. The result is cleaner, more full-bodied sound than would otherwise be available from most systems.