01-Feb-2017, 08:52
(This post was last modified: 01-Feb-2017, 10:04 by road rebel.)
5.1 stands for the signal (5 full band and 1LFE). Obviously, a full blown subwoofer produces much higher SPL <60Hz.
So marketing wise you can call it 5.5 if you want.
In order to have 5.1 with phantom you need
1- a decoding unit (can be the source or a processor)
2- a sound matrix unit to send every channel to an appropriate speaker (you can achieve this with an advanced multichannel DSP, a multichannel matrix or a surround processor).
3- a signal converting unit (to convert the output of the above into toslink/spdif for each phantom)
So this is not very straightforward nor easy. To my knowledge, Devialet has not commercialised a standalone solution yet.
The cheapest option would be a mediaplayer with Kodi (v17 performs the decoding rather well and you can perform Some kind of DSP) and a miniDSP nanoavr HDA afterwards with A/D converters for each channel.
So marketing wise you can call it 5.5 if you want.
In order to have 5.1 with phantom you need
1- a decoding unit (can be the source or a processor)
2- a sound matrix unit to send every channel to an appropriate speaker (you can achieve this with an advanced multichannel DSP, a multichannel matrix or a surround processor).
3- a signal converting unit (to convert the output of the above into toslink/spdif for each phantom)
So this is not very straightforward nor easy. To my knowledge, Devialet has not commercialised a standalone solution yet.
The cheapest option would be a mediaplayer with Kodi (v17 performs the decoding rather well and you can perform Some kind of DSP) and a miniDSP nanoavr HDA afterwards with A/D converters for each channel.
