Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-28 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 27 Jan 2001 | Originally, Pro-logic was exclusive to movie theaters. Right, but it was not called that, it was called "Dolby Surround Sound". It was renamed "Dolby Pro-Logic" for home receivers to avoid confusion with 3-point surround systems. -- Rat [EMAIL

Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-28 Thread las
Stainless Steel Rat wrote: Right, but it was not called that, it was called "Dolby Surround Sound". It was renamed "Dolby Pro-Logic" for home receivers to avoid confusion with 3-point surround systems. Dolby Surround Sound existed in home receivers before Dolby Pro Logic. Pro Logic was an

Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-28 Thread Don Capps
From: "las" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now Dolby Digital is a discrete set up while Dolby Surround and it's enhanced version, Pro Logic were matrixed kind of similar to SQ quadraphonic sound. Correct! Go to the head of the class! ;-) Don C.

Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-28 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 28 Jan 2001 | Dolby Surround Sound existed in home receivers before Dolby Pro Logic. | Pro Logic was an improvement over "plain" Dolby Surround. It added | steering logic to help direct the sounds to the proper speakers. Right. I think what I meant to say is

Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-28 Thread las
Stainless Steel Rat wrote: Exactly. The trick is to use phase inversion to matrix multiple audio tracks together. Which sounds (heh) like it shouldn't work, but it does when done right. Many years ago before I owned a Pro logic receiver, I took the right + from the RT front speaker and

Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-28 Thread Don Capps
From: "las" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carver of Carver electronics once noticed what he felt was a marked improvement in the sound while he had his fire place going. He experimented and added a circuit to some of his equipment that infused that background sound into the system. ROTFL! What a

Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-28 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 28 Jan 2001 | We used to refer to this a "hot wiring". Surprising (although you could not | control the volume of the rear speakers with my set up) the results were | often very pleasing. I don't know if what came out of the back was supposed | to be there, but

MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-27 Thread markaren
Originally, Pro-logic was exclusive to movie theaters. The dialogue was played through center channel speakers located behind the screen, and the sound permiated through the screen. The center tones were EQd for this purpose. At home there is no screen, and the center channel is too " bright".

Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-27 Thread las
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Originally, Pro-logic was exclusive to movie theaters. Actually Dolby Surround preceeded Pro-logic. Dolby Pro-logic is an improvement over "plain" Dolby Surround in that it added stearing logic to increase the separation between the channels (especially important

Re: MD: THX In Layman's Terms

2001-01-27 Thread Don Capps
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THX receivers process a delayed signal between the rear speakers, enhancing the rear localized effects. These are the 2 significant differences between Pro-logic and THX. Actually Mark, this isn't accurate. THX is not a type of surround processing. The two surround