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How are standard CD's incorporated into 5.1,6.1etc

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I have not bought a processor yet nor a DVD player and I read the post below about 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1. I understand how the various DVD signals can be split to the various .1's, however, I like to listen to standard CD's. What does a typical processor do with a audio CD? Does it just play two channels, or can all seven channels be played? Are there processor available which will play 5 or 6 or 7 channels?
Thanks in advance
Pete

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Re: How are standard CD's incorporated into 5.1,6.1etc kotches 15:30:59 10/27/00 (0)
The answer....
It depends. Some Pre/Pros take the PCM signal and just transfer it into stereo. Others take the PCM signal and try to decode dolby surround out of it.
With pre/pros in the latter category, you should be able to modify the default behaviour so that it will run in stereo on a PCM source. This isn't difficult, and with these being intended to run as surround controllers I can understand the logic of defaulting to DPL. I don't like it, but I understand it.
Hope this helped.

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