dante01
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Old movies tend to have 2 channel audio or even mono soundtracks. THere's not be an LFE channel anyway in association with such films.
If desperate, you could theoretically decode the source onboard the player and convey multichannel PCM to the AV receiver. Again, I'm not sure as to whether the AVR would then downmix any inclusive LFE channel though?
You have to recognise that the LFE channel was never intended to be portrayed by conventional passiv speakers so the is no real incentive to provide provision to portray that channel in the absence of an active sub. You are lucky that they do mix it down into the front stereo channels on systems devoid of a passive sub. I'm not at all sure you'd be missing anything if mixing down multichannel soundtracks and hving to sacrifice the LFE channel though?
Again, if desperate then turn off all the speakers (sst to none) other than the stereo pair. This may in fact result in the LFE channel being mixed down into the stereo left and right channels?
If desperate, you could theoretically decode the source onboard the player and convey multichannel PCM to the AV receiver. Again, I'm not sure as to whether the AVR would then downmix any inclusive LFE channel though?
You have to recognise that the LFE channel was never intended to be portrayed by conventional passiv speakers so the is no real incentive to provide provision to portray that channel in the absence of an active sub. You are lucky that they do mix it down into the front stereo channels on systems devoid of a passive sub. I'm not at all sure you'd be missing anything if mixing down multichannel soundtracks and hving to sacrifice the LFE channel though?
Again, if desperate then turn off all the speakers (sst to none) other than the stereo pair. This may in fact result in the LFE channel being mixed down into the stereo left and right channels?
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