Will DCs or MC-1 work w/DVD-Audio???

Posted by Philip Brandes [IP: 171.213.171.34] on April 13, 1999 at 13:43:52
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In Reply to: Will DCs or MC-1 work w/DVD-Audio??? posted by Scott Hassel on April 13, 1999 at 12:30:39:

Scott,

I think your observations are right on the money. I think Lexicon will utilize the existing rear surround outs, probably extracting and sending the matrixed sixth channel in mono to both rears and letting the user reconfigure for a single connected center rear if they want to take a step back in sound quality ;).

This would be easy to implement in software. Adding an additional rear channel output means expensive re-engineering on a piece of hardware that's no longer in production--without much in the way of a benefit.

If folks really wanted 8 channels, they could y-split the Lex rear output (which have already extracted the matrixed rear signal) and route them to a pot and some kind of monoblock to drive a rear center. I think this would pose problems for the mix, but it could be done.

In any case, Lexicon owners are uniquely positioned for support for Surround EX--5-channel processors can't be upgraded, so owners will be looking at some kind of additional decode to run on the surround channels. And if they're using recievers without pre-outs, they're out of luck.

Cheers,
Philip Brandes

Follow Ups:

• Will DCs or MC-1 work w/DVD-Audio??? - Stirling 18:22:07 04/13/99 (2)
  • Will DCs or MC-1 work w/DVD-Audio??? - SMR [WizOp] 19:28:24 04/13/99 (0)
  • Will DCs or MC-1 work w/DVD-Audio??? - Philip Brandes 18:28:06 04/13/99 (0)

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