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Surround sound formats
The AKURATE KONTROL is equipped with a wide range of surround
sound formats to enhance your audio experience.
To change the surround sound format:
• Repeatedly press
SSUURRRR
on the handset until the desired format
is shown on the front panel display.
The available surround sound formats, and a brief description of each,
is as follows:
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital EX
Dolby Pro Logic II*
Dolby Pro Logic II
Music*
DTS Digital
Surround
DTS 96/24
DTS ES Matrix
A standard for storing 5.1 channels of audio
signal on to discs such as DVD-Videos
Spreads the surround speaker portion of a Dolby
Digital 5.1 audio signal to two back loudspeakers
- converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio
Converts any non-surround sound audio signal
into a surround sound 5.0 signal
Same as Dolby Pro Logic II but is particularly
suited to music. Features three user-adjustable
parameters that are accessed via the AKURATE
KONTROL’s setup menus
A standard for storing 5.1 channels of audio
signal on to discs such as DVD-Videos
Same as DTS Digital Surround but offers better
audio quality
Spreads the surround speaker portion of a DTS
5.1 audio signal to two back loudspeakers -
converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio
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DTS ES Discrete
DTS 96/24 ES
Matrix
Phantom
3 Stereo
Stereo Sub
MPEG Stereo
MPEG Surround
AAC Stereo
AAC Surround
LIMBIK Party
A standard for storing 6.1 channels of audio
signal on to discs such as DVD-Videos. On the
AKURATE KONTROL the extra channel can be
spread over two back loudspeakers - converting
6.1 audio to 7.1 audio
Higher quality of DTS Digital Surround with the
addition of the surround sound speaker portion of
the signal being spread to two back loudspeakers
- converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio
Passes the centre channel portion of a 5.1 or 7.1
audio signal to the front left and right
loudspeakers
Downmixes a 5.1 or 7.1 audio signal and passes
it to the front and centre loudspeakers only
Downmixes a 5.1 audio signal to a two-channel
signal and then routes the signal to the front
loudspeakers and subwoofer. Routes a stereo
signal to the front loudspeakers and subwoofer
A standard for storing two-channel audio in
MPEG files
A standard for storing surround sound audio in
MPEG files
A standard for storing two-channel audio
A standard for storing surround sound audio
A Linn algorithm that sends essentially the same
audio signal to all loudspeakers in your system
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* You do not need a full surround sound loudspeaker system to hear
these formats. If you have more than front loudspeakers (and a
subwoofer) in your system, when you select either of these formats
the signal will be converted into a 5.0 signal then downmixed to match
the number of loudspeakers in your system.
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