What is DTS Neo:6?

gools

Trying to figure out what this does? It's a new feature on my Amp, and don't know what to use it for. Nothing came up on the search feature. Is it no very popular?

cfrizz

It is basically a surround format. Try listening to it when you are playing a cd. switch between DTS Neo 6 & Dolby PL 2 & see if you prefer how the music sounds in either of these two formats. As opposed to just stereo or 5 channel stereo.

I have grown to like my cd's played in Dolby pl 2.

Systems

Like cfrizz says it is basically DTS's answer to PL2. here is a link to more info http://www.dtsonline.com/consumer/technology/at-a-glance-details.php?ID=1996020590&glanceID=Overview

Edit: fixed link.

Midnite Mick

I use it primarily for TV viewing only.

Mike

John K.

G, as Cathy pointed out, Neo:6 is a surround sound processing feature similar in basic operation to DPLII, and on HK receivers such as yours Logic 7 is also available for this purpose. The rationale for these is that when we're at a live performance the majority of the sound in the hall doesn't reach us as direct sound from the front, but rather as reflected ambience from other directions. When the recording microphones pick all this up it has to be mixed into the two front channels because in two channel source material there's no place else to put it. The DPLII and the other similar processing detects the time differences in the reflected material as compared to the direct sound, extracts it from the front channels and steers it to the surrounds where it belongs. The result is to bring us a little closer to the live listening experience. This is sometimes confused with DSP processing(Jazz Club, Beer Garden, Sportin' House, etc)which adds arbitrary amounts of artificial reverb among other things, but the two are totally separate. Nothing is added by DPLII/ Logic 7/Neo:6 etc.; the natural content present in varying degrees is just distributed more realistically.

You should try all of the options available on your receiver to see which you prefer(I generally use DPLII the most), so that you can put all of your speakers to work with all your two-channel source material.

gools

Thanks John K. for that explanation.