More speakers and Surround Sound verification

 


There are additions to my speaker setup. A couple of Cerwin Vega HUD 203's are acting as Surround Side speakers. I screwed two open backed bookcase speakers together to use as a Surround Center speaker.

Taken together with the Polk Audio subwoofer, that makes a Surround Sound 5.1 arrangement.

The avr I'm using is an advanced and sophisiticated unit. I suspect the avr is fairly typical of the genre. I've had to do a lot of readng and studying of the owner's manual, with occasional trial and error changes to test for effect. In fact the software is a tweaker's dream. But can be a user nightmare.

It seems that "Pure Direct" is the only mode of several that will play all the speakers without any modification of the sound. Another uses modifications tweaked by me in the setup program. All others are specialized, and not for the person who wants the real experience, as the movie director intended it.

There are 'test' files in abundance on the web, especially on YouTube. A lot of those are junk, or fake.  I decided to make my own for just this reason.

 I used a program called Audacity and a suite of programs collectively referred to as ffmpeg. The result is not as pleasant to look at, but does work.

By the way, I'm using the Pioneer VSX series. A Pioneer Elite VSX-42, and a VSX-1023-K.


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