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      07-16-2012, 02:32 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Gerusarus View Post
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Check this out:
http://www.automotive.harmankardon.c...ns/logic7.aspx

Logic7 is not like true surround 5.1, 6.1, etc...
It's a processor designed to take 2 channel stereo, 5.1, 6.1, etc...and interpret the audio to then create a sound field especially suited for a car environment.

Thus, there isn't material specifically coded for logic7.
It's like some of "surround" settings in a surround sound AV amplifier, where an artificial surround is created by the built in processor, and is mainly intended to be used with 2 channel stereo to convert it and create a surround field, where no surround field was actually coded into the source material.

Where 5.1 or 6.1 contains true discrete channels of information, specifically engineered and coded to playback out of certain channels/speakers, Logic7 uses it's coding to artificially create a "surround" field.

Even if you had a DVD-A or SA-CD, which are true 5.1 discrete channel coded, Logic7 won't play it back as your home surround system would.
It would take that audio information and reprocess it to create the Logic7 surround field.

I'm not sure if the HK DVD player will play those types of media, but it should playback move DVD's that are coded in surround such as DTS, or Dolby Pro-Logic. However, from what HK says, Logic7 won't playback those discrete audio tracks either. It will simulate and create it's own Logic7 sound field for that media as well.

Basically, Logic7 is not a true discrete channel surround sound system, like DTS or Pro Logic.
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