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<blockquote data-quote="MrSensitive" data-source="post: 41431" data-attributes="member: 10304">Ask Any audiophile and the first thing thay tell you is that 5.1 sucks big time..they still only want stereo.and yes, bi-amped, monoblocks on spiffy spikes and all other stuff.5.1 is a format that compresses sound, 6.1 is derived from 5.1, 7.1 is derived from 5.1.this means that the extra 1 or 2 extra channels are interpolated from all other available channels..I worked for one and a half years to try to replace my receiver, I FAILED...(and I consider myself to be quite technical)too many different soudcards available, no decent SDK's, insufficient inputs, outputs.. horrible delay's etc etc..no decent way to suppress power on-off thumbs. and believe me, You only forget to turn of your AMP once..the thump is maximum output on your soundcard wich means maximum output (or even clipping) on your speakers, baby started crying, wife yelling at me... i threw away the idea, and got me a Marantz receiver (with COMport, so that I can control it using RS232... still some hopes to use one pocketpc remote for all)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrSensitive, post: 41431, member: 10304"] Ask Any audiophile and the first thing thay tell you is that 5.1 sucks big time.. they still only want stereo. and yes, bi-amped, monoblocks on spiffy spikes and all other stuff. 5.1 is a format that compresses sound, 6.1 is derived from 5.1, 7.1 is derived from 5.1. this means that the extra 1 or 2 extra channels are interpolated from all other available channels.. I worked for one and a half years to try to replace my receiver, I FAILED... (and I consider myself to be quite technical) too many different soudcards available, no decent SDK's, insufficient inputs, outputs.. horrible delay's etc etc..no decent way to suppress power on-off thumbs. and believe me, You only forget to turn of your AMP once.. the thump is maximum output on your soundcard wich means maximum output (or even clipping) on your speakers, baby started crying, wife yelling at me... i threw away the idea, and got me a Marantz receiver (with COMport, so that I can control it using RS232... still some hopes to use one pocketpc remote for all) [/QUOTE]

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