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<blockquote data-quote="Stéphane Lenclud" data-source="post: 1209463" data-attributes="member: 140174">That should be the default behavior so stereo sources should only play through your left and right speakers while all other speakers remain quiet, unless if your AVR does some upmixing of its own.However many users like myself would rather make use of more or all speakers even when playing stereo sources, that's called upmixing.Thus music which are typically stereo sources will play through all my surround speakers and make use of my subwoofer for a better room coverage.Please note that contrary to what you seem to imply earlier upmixing a digital audio signal by your computer, be it through software or &quot;hardware&quot; sound card means, does not have to be worst than what your AVR could do. On the contrary, your computer has most likely much more processing power than your AVR. Therefore providing that we could link processing power with the quality of the output signal your computer should be able to do a much better job than your AVR.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stéphane Lenclud, post: 1209463, member: 140174"] That should be the default behavior so stereo sources should only play through your left and right speakers while all other speakers remain quiet, unless if your AVR does some upmixing of its own. However many users like myself would rather make use of more or all speakers even when playing stereo sources, that's called upmixing. Thus music which are typically stereo sources will play through all my surround speakers and make use of my subwoofer for a better room coverage. Please note that contrary to what you seem to imply earlier upmixing a digital audio signal by your computer, be it through software or "hardware" sound card means, does not have to be worst than what your AVR could do. On the contrary, your computer has most likely much more processing power than your AVR. Therefore providing that we could link processing power with the quality of the output signal your computer should be able to do a much better job than your AVR. [/QUOTE]

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