Is getting 3 reactors and 2 reactors custom the easiest way for a 5.1. surround?

[mcallega]

I'm not into MCH or video, but I think your intended setup with Reactors should work. Is there MCH Dirac in the XMC-1 too?
The Reactor has very good bass response. With five of them you may even be able to drop the Velodyne provided you can add the bass output to Reactors in stead.

That is an excellent idea!

The XMC-1 has an enhanced bass mode.
" When Enhanced Bass is enabled on the XMC-1, bass from the LFE channel is routed to your subwoofer (or subs), bass below the crossover frequency of any speaker you have configured as small is also routed to your sub or subs, and bass from any channels you have configured as large is routed to the intended main speaker.

IN ADDITION, bass below 80 Hz from the LFE channel is also routed to every speaker you have configured as large (except the center channel), and bass below 80 Hz from all main speakers configured as large (including the center channel) is also routed to your sub or subs."

Confirmed with the Emotiva customer support: "you would need to go into the speaker setup and set the subwoofer field to "none". In this configuration, the LFE channel would be routed to any speakers set to "large".


Latest news after having spoke to Devialet: They suggest to get 5 Reactor custom as you will avoid all the latency issues. Plug them directly via the balanced input (or Dante) and you are done. Mario