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I have a stereo receiver with four channel speakers and a subwoofer is there a way I can have the two front channels as regular sound speakers and the two rear channels as surround affect speakers?
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If the receiver is just stereo, not surround sound, you will not be able to create a surround sound (front, centre, sub, surround) setup.
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What cables does an acousticmass 7 need and how do you hook it up?
It uses ordinary speaker cables. Unlike modern surround speaker systems, the Acoustimass 7 does not have a powered subwoofer. The only way to connect it to a surround receiver is to use the speaker level outputs from the right, center and left channels. They connect to the sub, and then on to each of the front 3 speakers. You will need to tell your receiver that there is no connected subwoofer, and that the size of the front 3 speakers is 'large'.
What do people mean when they say surround sound 2.1 or surround 4.1 5.1?
Speaker systems are described using a 2-part notation in the form of X.Y, with the X referring to the number of full-range channels (regular speakers) and the Y referring to limited-range speakers like a subwoofer. For example, a 5.1 surround system has 5 full-range speakers (front, left, right, left surround, right surround) and a subwoofer. Likewise, 2.1 means that the system has 2 regular speakers (presumably a left and right channel) and 1 subwoofer, and 4.1 means 4 regular speakers (left, right, left surround, right surround) and 1 subwoofer. Another means of notation uses the format X/Y.Z, where X is the number of full-range channels in front of the listener, Y is the number of full-range channels beside or behind the listener, and Z is the number of limited-range channels. For example, a typical 5.1 surround system could be described as 3/2.1, because there are 3 channels in front of the listener (left, center, right), 2 behind (left surround, right surround), and 1 limited-range subwoofer. To expand it even farther, there is another notation, expanded to include matrix decoders, with the format X/Y:Z.A, where X is the number of front channels, Y is the number of rear channels, Z is the number of channels in the rear in total (including channels reproduced by the rear using sound effects), and Z is the number of limited-range speakers. So, the notation 3/2:3.1 (referring to Dolby Digital EX) means that there are 3 channels in front (left, front center, right), 2 speakers in back (left surround, right surround) which produce 3 channels (left surround, rear center, right surround), and 1 limited-range subwoofer. For more information on this type of notation, you can visit Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_sound#Notation
What is a 7.2 receiver used for?
A 7.2 surround receiver is used for viewing movies encoded with 7.1 channel surround sound. Very few movies have this many channels, so most of the time it will be doing 5.1 surround. The .2 part indicates the receiver has 2 subwoofer outputs, however, they are the same channel information.
How many speakers or sound channels does surround sound version 5.1 use?
Six: Left, Center, Right, Rear Right, Rear Left and Subwoofer.
What is 5.2 surround?
5.2 surround is the same as 5.1 but has an extra subwoofer, producing more bass frequencies than a standard 5.1. ie. 1x Front Left 1x Front Right 1x Back Left 1x Back Right 1x Front Center 2x Subwoofer The subwoofer channels are the same information on both. 5.2 is not an official surround format, merely an indication that the surround receiver has 2 subwoofer output jacks. You can get the same effect from any receiver by using an RCA splitter and running the signal to 2 subs.
What is 5.2 surround sound?
5.2 surround is the same as 5.1 but has an extra subwoofer, producing more bass frequencies than a standard 5.1. ie. 1x Front Left 1x Front Right 1x Back Left 1x Back Right 1x Front Center 2x Subwoofer The subwoofer channels are the same information on both. 5.2 is not an official surround format, merely an indication that the surround receiver has 2 subwoofer output jacks. You can get the same effect from any receiver by using an RCA splitter and running the signal to 2 subs.
What types of surround sound systems are there?
Basically the .1 accounts for the subwoofer. Then the number 5 or 7 accounts for the number of speakers there are. So a 5.1 system will have 5 speakers and a subwoofer and a 7.1 will have 7 speakers and a subwoofer.
Will you get 5.1 audio if you connect a sony DVD player to a 46 inch plasma tv with an HDMI cable and or coaxial cable?
No, you will need a surround sound receiver or amplifier with 5 speakers and a subwoofer to hear surround sound.
How do you get just front and surround speakers to play on a Denon avr-1508?
There are no surround modes that quickly turn off the subwoofer, center channel and surround back speakers, but leave the surround speakers (side) speakers on. You will need to go into the System Setup -> Sp 2. In 3.0p -> Speaker Setup menu to select Center Speaker 'None', Surround Speaker ('Large' or 'Small'), Surround Back Speaker 'None' and Subwoofer 'No'. If you have a subwoofer and want sound to come out of the all of the speakers when you are listening to a non-surround source such as a CD, use the 5CH/7CH Stereo DSP simulation.
Can the front speakers in a surround sound system be used as stand alone speakers?
Yes and no. Depends on just which front surround speaker you're talking about. If the surround speaker set you have includes a subwoofer, then for standalone you really need the front speakers plus the subwoofer, as the fronts aren't designed to reproduce the bass, but rather to send the bass to the subwoofer. So if you used ONLY the front speakers without the subwoofer, then you'll have very poor bass in the resulting system. If you use the subwoofer plus the front speakers, then it should work just fine.
How do you get four pairs of speakers into a receiver?
you could connect them all to each other then connect them to the receiver. or if you wanted a surround sound experience you could connect the biggest directly to the left and right channels respectively and then connect two of the pairs one set at a time as follows... left surround front (positive to receiverL+, negative connects to the positive of the left surround rear, negative of the left surround rear goes into the receiverL- ) on the right side ( right surround front + goes to receiver, (-) goes to the (+) of the right surround rear, the (-) of the right surround rear goes into the receiver.) this changes the sound frequencies the speakers are best at supporting because it changes the ohms of the speakers. this is called wiring in a series. as opposed to wiring the speakers all together + to + ,- to - , which is called wiring in parallel. Then with the last set of speakers set them at the very rear of the soundstage and wire the left speaker's positive into the left positive connection on the receiver then the negative of that speaker into the positive of the right channel. Then wire the positive of the right speaker into the positive of the right channel on the receiver and the negative of the right speaker into the positive of the left channel. this will only play the surround channels of the signal. test these speakers out alone if you want to hear the surround sound effect by itself. In music it will be the background singers ect. (if you have ever wondered how a surround system gets extra channels out of two analog wired channels now you know :)
How many speakers are included with the Panasonic SC-BT300 system?
It comes with five surround sound speakers and a subwoofer.
