Hoping maybe the #Fediverse hive mind has some ideas about a problem.

My old workhorse Onkyo AV receiver died a few months back, and I replaced it with a Denon AVR-S970H. And it's driving me nuts.

My #TV is old, from the final generation of plasmas. Great picture. Sound is okay, but it only understands stereo and mono in uncompressed or AC-3 formats. Anything else sent to it - different codec, or multichannel/surround - is ignored and you get no sound. But that's okay!

Most of the things I watch that have stereo sound I just want to listen to through the TV anyways - TV shows, old non-spectacle movies, documentaries, all that sort of stuff. When I have a Big Movie with a #surround soundtrack, that's when I want to listen to it through the fancy speakers and the #AVR.

With my old #Onkyo, this was easy: the receiver always played the sound through itself and also sent it to the TV. If I wanted simple stereo, I'd just mute the receiver. If it was a surround sound thing, the TV just ignored it.

The #Denon... doesn't do this. I have to configure whether to output the sound through the TV, or through the AVR. There's no option for "both".

1/2

Pink Floyd in surround sound. Super Audio CD /SACD. High resolution format of the past and are still being made. These (and DVDA) are as awesome as vinyl records are for analog but are digital's peak. #pinkfloyd #sacd #dvdaudio #dvda #superaudiocd #SurroundSound #music

The Blue Man Group's AUDIO album is one of my favorite multi-channel high res 192/24 audio albums that I have. The mix itself, the incredible highs, the insanely rich base. Completely independent tracks written for each speaker. It's unfortunate that 5.1 music never really caught on, though I am happy that most live concerts recorded today are in 5.1. #music #highdefinition #highresolution #SurroundSound #Surround #audio #dvdaudio #sacd

Ugh, I missed the trailer drop 2-3 days ago on YouTube and the theater near me only has seats on the sides of the first two rows.

A theater in South Miami has a perfect seat left, but that's too far to travel since I've already experienced the concert show on AppleTV with my 4K tv and 5.1 surround system.

It's awesome

I'd love to see this in IMAX, but that doesn't seem possible.

#Björk: #Cornucopia #concert #film #movie #IMAX #AppleTV #4K #SurroundSound

https://youtu.be/WvSoLELzCDk?si=_uXzBbvCUDKvZBgL

Okay y'all, I hit the jackpot again! So I have the OnePlus 13 phone, and Earfun wireless earbuds. So I was trying surround sound playback on the AAC Multichannel Playback Test page from Fraunhoffer, and while the OReality audio doesn't use the surround sound channels, the Spatial Audio option does! So yeah, while the OnePlus doesn't have Dolby Atmos, it does support surround sound emulation. Lets see an iPhone do that! :)

So in my quest to get Dolby Pro Logic surround sound encoding in Godot, I have stumbled upon the docs for AudioEffectStereoEnhance. It had no documentation until now with 4.4 coming out. But it appears to go about encoding matrix surround sound the same way as Dolby Pro Logic by phase shifting the rear channels. How exactly it does this is not explained and these descriptions are still not detailed enough, but I think I might finally be nearing the end of my quest for outdated surround sound lol

I will try to test this later and will report back if I find anything useful.

#lambgamedev #godot #gamedev #surroundsound #dolby

Cololight Colo GCS Adds 7.1.2 Surround to Your Chair #ces2025 #gaming #surroundsound

https://geekazine.com/event/ces-2/cololight-colo-gcs-adds-7-1-2-surround-to-your-chair/

Gerade mal #BaldursGate3 geshoppt.

Das #Spiel scheint ein #Meilenstein der #Computerspiel-#Geschichte geworden zu sein, da sollte ich auch mal einen Blick riskieren und der #BlackFriday ist eine gute Gelegenheit.

Ich habe lange überlegt, ob ich die #PC-Version (#DRM-frei von #GOG) oder die #PlayStation-Portierung nehmen soll. Grafisch scheint es keinen Unterschied zu machen, bei der Steuerung punktet vermutlich der PC mit Tastatur und Maus.

Am Ende ist es aber doch die #PS5 geworden, ich habe Spiele generell lieber getrennt von meiner "Produktiv-Umgebung" für SeriousBusiness und an der #PS5Pro (an die das Game auch speziell angepasst worden zu sein scheint) kann ich mit #SurroundSound auf großer #Leinwand im #Heimkino spielen.

I’m so full of inspiration after an exciting week at Sony’s “Immersive Creator Experience” camp. Here’s a picture of me and artist/producer Neffu working in the 4.1.4 audio room I built for the week. This was my first time really successfully doing music production with different creators while actually monitoring with an immersive audio setup. This year I relied a ton on Fab Filter’s Pro-R2, Sound Particles Density & inDelay, and Eventide’s Blackhole Immersive edition. Plus the quad “double ORTF” setup my pal Will built with Sony’s ECM-100 mics.

I'm not really a #car person but I am an minor #audiophile and I got excited when I spotted that according the the manual my car should be able to handle #multichannel #audio playback!

However in practice all I seem to be able to get when I try various 5.1 #SurroundSound test files are the front left and right, all other channels silent. So it seems to know their 5.1, but only playing 2 channels out of front and rear speakers.

Any car/audio people have any suggestions? #Skoda #Fabia 3 #Bolero

Meet me at the mead hall in winter
Set the world to right
With songs, science and stories
Hold back the fading light
Artists and dreamers and thinkers
Right here by your side
Finding truth in those travellers' tales
On this brief flight of life

#BigBigTrain #SurroundSound #ProgRock #ProgRockEpic
#aMeadHallInWinter

https://youtu.be/jXCFs1vgZK8?si=EfyIkK1NUtDClTv9

People of the fediverse, help me do:

I have quite a collection of 5.1 FLAC files, and some .dts and .ac3, of music albums recorded in #surroundSound. I used to be able to play these out to my amplifier with discrete 6-channel inputs from an Xbox with #XBMC, and later over HDMI from a raspi running # raspbmc

Nowadays I have Samsung Atmos soundbar and an #NvidiaShield Pro. What software can I use to play these files back now?

(a boost would be appreciated if you can’t answer yourself)

#240pTestSuite is a #homebrew tool for testing compatibility of an #upscaler with #RetroGames and adjusting a TV's colors and geometry. The ports to #NES, #GameBoy, and #GBA have been updated this week. Highlights of v0.23:

- Health warning for tests that flash
- Backlight zone test has movement speed control for measuring afterglow time
- MDFourier plays sync tone when ready
- [NES] Input test (plug in controllers and see if they work)
- [NES] Monoscope pattern by Keith Raney (khmr33)
- [NES] MMC1 and MMC3 builds of the Suite and stand-alone ROMs of MDFourier
- [GB] Super Game Boy sound test
- [GB] Test #SurroundSound decoder
- [GBA] Parallax scroll in Hill zone and Shadow sprite isn't glitchy anymore
- [GB, GBA] Shadow sprite: Add Donna background by Jose Salot

ROM and source code: https://github.com/pinobatch/240p-test-mini/releases
#NESdev #GBdev #GBAdev #homebrew #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Today I learned that my #hearing / #AuditoryProcessing isn't getting worse - it's that #TV shows and films are now increasingly likely to mix their #audio for #SurroundSound, where the dialogue track is intended to come out of the speaker close behind you, so they tend to put it really quiet in the mix. Hence why I need to put subtitles on to follow dialogue on shows, but I never used to. Which is... bonkers, because who tf uses surround sound? Aren't we all streaming on our laptops?

Just read over the specs on this thing, and HOLY CRAP! If it's as good as they claim, that price is a STEAL. Still a bit overkill for my needs (and I certainly don't have space for 13 speakers in my living room at the moment), but if I had the money to splurge, even if I only used two channels out of it, I'd grab one just for how clean and flat the numbers say it sounds.

#HiFi #Stereo #Audio #HomeTheater #SurroundSound #Electronics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apuP9hQL5wU

Spending lunch daydreaming/researching surround sound audio for what will be a newly renovated small basement TV room.

Fronts are easier. I'm thinking mounted TV, long cabinet underneath with the other gear (reciever, Xbox) in it and the centre, left, right, speakers on top about sitting ear height.

I think I've figured out I would put the rear speakers on the side wall, 6-8ft up, pointing down toward the couch along the wall?

My venerable Sony HT-RT5 #surroundSound system is finally giving into its well known hardware problem: onboard battery has died and it keeps forgetting it settings and the sub keeps disconnecting.

So, I’m looking to replace it. Need basic Dolby Digital and DTS, don’t need Atmos/DTS:X, but wireless surrounds are a must due to the room layout. Chromecast/Airplay is nice to have but not essential. Multiple HDMI again, nice to have but not essential

Budget under £400. Any suggestions?