steelyman
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I bought some new rear speakers for surround sound on my (only) television. I’ve had a similar setup in the past but it was a long time ago.
I spent a good amount of time investigating what settings on the individual pieces gave the best sounding results.
There weren’t many choices on my TV (Samsung): either PCM or Neo-2.5 (which I’d never heard of). A search turned up the information that Neo-2.5 is a proprietary tech from Samsung and DTS (never heard of that either).
PCM was selected by default. Switching to Neo-2.5 made a huge difference not only in surround but also in the low end from the subwoofer.
I think I may be done. Anyone know anything else to try? My sources are streaming exclusively through Roku, a Blu-ray player and an HD OTA antenna.
I think the only thing to pay attention to is whether individual titles are identified as 5.1 sound. I did find a few discs in my collection labeled as such, mostly music/concert discs.
[ADDED] Here is the most understandable (to people like me) description of pros/cons I found:
https://questionfun.com/what-is-dts-neo-2-5/
I spent a good amount of time investigating what settings on the individual pieces gave the best sounding results.
There weren’t many choices on my TV (Samsung): either PCM or Neo-2.5 (which I’d never heard of). A search turned up the information that Neo-2.5 is a proprietary tech from Samsung and DTS (never heard of that either).
PCM was selected by default. Switching to Neo-2.5 made a huge difference not only in surround but also in the low end from the subwoofer.
I think I may be done. Anyone know anything else to try? My sources are streaming exclusively through Roku, a Blu-ray player and an HD OTA antenna.
I think the only thing to pay attention to is whether individual titles are identified as 5.1 sound. I did find a few discs in my collection labeled as such, mostly music/concert discs.
[ADDED] Here is the most understandable (to people like me) description of pros/cons I found:
https://questionfun.com/what-is-dts-neo-2-5/
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