Should I hear sound out of my rear center in PLII (1 Viewer)

[ZachT]

I get sound out of my sixth speaker, the rear center. I thought PLIIx was suposed to add the rear center. I have a Denon AVR-1804. Im I supposed to get sound or is only PLIIx supposed to have sound. What do you guys think?

 

[greg_t]

It probably depends on the source itself, certain network TV broadcasts and such probably wont. I thought prologic IIx was supposed to give you a rear center though.

 

[Neil White]

Does the 1804 have some setting to send the rear surround speaker(s) the same signal as the regular surrounds? If so, maybe you have that set.

I believe you are correct that PLIIx adds the rear and that PLII does not. Then again, I'm new to PLII and I could be wrong.

N

 

[ZachT]

The only setting for the rear center is on or off. I could hear all the chearing and clapping lastnight on the superbowl through my cable box in the rear center. It only does it on certain shows and stuff on tv.

 

[John S]

I get it on DPLII if I turn THX EX post processing on.

So, some DPLIIx does have content and some doesn't is what your saying?

Interesting to say the least. I would take that to mean on some soruces/content it reacts more like DPLII?


keep this thread going, I am very curious on DPLIIx....

 

[David Judah]

Your receiver probably just has a mode that will activate the rear center in all surround modes including regular PL II as Neil suggested(it's a common feature now).

The advantage of PL IIx is it has more sophisticated logic decoding allowing different signals for the rear center/s from the side surrounds(like having two pairs of stereo surrounds--they're not discrete, but each pair is different). It can also take a mono signal and upconvert it to 6.1 or 7.1. Those receiver modes are just duplicating information from the side surrounds.

DJ

 

[Jerome Grate]

With Logic 7, I get info in the rear center speaker. That said, I wouldn't find it unusual to get some sounds sent to the rear center. Especially like audience cheers, and other sounds that normally would ambient sound like echos.

 

[Doug Brewster]

If you hear sound out your rear center, you should cut back on the gassy foods.