Thread: Rear Speakers
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Old 05-30-2013, 04:59 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by cruzinbill View Post
Again you are comparing a car to a home enviroment. Do you even know of any headunits that will play SACD in car? I'm pretty sure there are none.
I took 30 seconds and google found these three. All 3 are Sony head units, models MEX-DV1000, MEX-DV2000, and XAV-W1.

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Originally Posted by cruzinbill View Post
So you would need processing to actually make use of the rear speakers still. Slim to none offer true surround sound either. Unless your source unit has it then you aren't actually doing anything other than cloning the front output. Thats all rear is, a duplicate of the front output in 90% of car stereos.

So even if you are listening to dvd audio in a car, its still not surround sound just incorrect imaging from the rear. Unless you have one of the few units that do 5.1.
I have an older alpine in my other vehicle that supports it in surround. There is no DSP and the imaging is correct with it. Just about any car dvd player supports dvd-a and sacd format. Including newer systems. Any new head unit that has toslink out will support it. Last I checked toslink is 100% correct channel presentation in car or home. The toslink out will be correctly setup to present the rear channel and the RCA outputs will also be correct for rear with no DSP required. I do plan on using a DSP in my build. I will start next week on it and be posting it when completed. Just do some research before purchasing and everything will be fine.

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Originally Posted by cruzinbill View Post
If someone wants to run rears fine, but there's no reason to have false beliefs of whats going on.
Again this is dependent upon the equipment you purchase. Making an assumption that everything being sold by every company is identical is just wrong.

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