Can Marantz SR-6006 support HD Audio?

[fuzz092888]

This is just plain wrong. You're saying that the centre channel (where most of the dialogue is) is truncated, but if that's the case it's a PEBKAC. Channel truncating will ONLY happen if you tell the receiver that you have a centre channel, when if fact you don't. If you have set the receiver to stereo output any and all multichannel input will be downmixed to stereo. A very essential part of the downmixing, and I can state without reservation that ANY downmixing algorithm currently on the market do this, is to divide the contents of the centre channel equally between FL and FR. How else do you think people watch a movie on their laptop

what I'm saying is that the dialogue doesn't sound as forward and isn't as easy to distinguish without a center channel speaker. As someone who has listened to many movies with and without a center I can tell you without hesitation that IMO the dialogue sounds much better and clearer with a center channel (an opinion shared by many others I might add). The fact of the matter is that having two speakers trying to reproduce all the sounds of a dynamic movie plus deliver crisp clear dialogue at the same time is difficult at best and adding a center channel would improve his ability to hear the dialogue.

Also comparing speakers that are meant to reproduce the full effect of a movies dynamic nature and speakers in a laptop is far from an apples to apples comparison.

And I didn't say all that. What I said was that the electronics aren't at fault for his difficulty hearing dialogue. This is an issue many people have had watching movies in 2.0 or 2.1. So to tell me I'm wrong based on things I never actually said is a bit silly. If you disagree with my assessment please offer an alternative solution instead of calling out somebody else based on what you may have thought that I could have possibly implied.

 

[LB06]

To me, "struggling to hear dialogue" (what the TS said) sounds like a truncated centre channel, but you're right that I shouldn't have assumed that your statement was also predicated on this statement.

Still, we cannot preclude the possibility of a truncated centre channel. Also "struggling to hear dialogue" sounds different to me than "dialogue doesn't sound as forward". I've never had problems understanding the dialogue in a movie, even when on stereo, except when it was supposed to be difficult to understand, e.g. when the people in the movie are on a small boat in a heavy lightening storm shouting towards each other. Just for fun, could you point me to a particular scene in a movie where dialogue is difficult to understand in a 2.0 or 2.1 setup? I'll set my amp to 2.1 and give it a swing.

In any case, if what your assumption is right maybe TS could try to apply DRC (never thought I'd say this). If my assumption is right TS should just enable proper downmixing.

 

[GranteedEV]

I can tell you without hesitation that IMO the dialogue sounds much better and clearer with a center channel (an opinion shared by many others I might add).

Not I. I think phantom mono at TV height away from diffractive objects sounds better than mono + diffraction off TV + apparent sound source underneath TV.

 

[fuzz092888]

Not I. I think phantom mono at TV height away from diffractive objects sounds better than mono + diffraction off TV + apparent sound source underneath TV.

Quit bragging about your new toys