Hello:
I hope this is the right place. I am gradually unloading gear going from a 5.1 to a 2 channel set up. Right now I have only left and right speakers, prepro, 7 channel amp, sub and bluray player without a multichannel analog out.
I have the blu ray player HDMI to the processor. The processor has the center and surround set to NONE.
I was watching Finding Nemo in the 7.1 mix and it sounded pretty 2 dimensional. I happened to stumble across a stereo mix in the settings and I switched over to it. The sound instantly became very 3 dimensional, throwing effects to the back and sides of the room, sharpened dialog and had much better resolution.
Given that most blurays don't include stereo mixes, would a bluray player like the Oppo with a decooder wired analog to a 2 channel integrated give me similar performance from downconverted mixes?
Thanks in advance!
I hope this is the right place. I am gradually unloading gear going from a 5.1 to a 2 channel set up. Right now I have only left and right speakers, prepro, 7 channel amp, sub and bluray player without a multichannel analog out.
I have the blu ray player HDMI to the processor. The processor has the center and surround set to NONE.
I was watching Finding Nemo in the 7.1 mix and it sounded pretty 2 dimensional. I happened to stumble across a stereo mix in the settings and I switched over to it. The sound instantly became very 3 dimensional, throwing effects to the back and sides of the room, sharpened dialog and had much better resolution.
Given that most blurays don't include stereo mixes, would a bluray player like the Oppo with a decooder wired analog to a 2 channel integrated give me similar performance from downconverted mixes?
Thanks in advance!