Emotiva XMC-1 User Manual page 20

• Bass management IS available and the subwoofer IS active.
• Loudness Control, the Tone Presets, and the Tone Trims are active.
• Dirac Live and the manual Parametric EQ Presets are active.
• Level Trims are active.
• Speaker Distance adjustments are available for both analog and digital inputs.
• Stereo analog signals are converted to digital audio and routed through the processor.
• Stereo digital input signals are routed through the processor.
• Surround sound digital signals are decoded, mixed down to stereo, and converted to analog
(the Center Channel and LFE signals, if present, are mixed into the stereo output).
• After all processing is completed, the left signal is routed to ALL left side speakers and the
right signal is routed to ALL right side speakers; and the center channel speaker receives a
mix of left and right. .
• If an LFE signal is present, and one or two subwoofers are also present, the LFE content will be
routed to the subs along with low-frequency content from the main channels (as determined
by the bass management settings).
Discrete (Digital) Surround Sound Formats
Discrete Digital Surround Sound formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio contain high-
quality discrete multi-channel digital audio; each channel is stored separately, and the decoded
audio is an exact replica of the original content.
For audio encoded in these formats, the XMC-1 will automatically detect the format and use the
correct decoder.
Matrix Surround Sound Formats
Matrix Surround Sound processing modes like Dolby PLIIx and DTS Neo:6 use information in the
audio signal itself to create additional audio channels from the channels already present. These
processing modes can be used to recreate multi-channel audio from stereo content that was
specifically encoded for them - although, unlike with discrete surround sound formats, the result will
only be an approximation of the original. Originally, various Matrix Surround Sound formats were
used to deliver surround sound content; today virtually all surround sound content is encoded in
one of the discrete formats.
Today, these modes are most commonly used as post processing modes to synthesize extra
channels, either to transform stereo music into 5.1 channel or 7.1 channel surround sound, or to
transform discrete 5.1 channel surround sound into synthesized 7.1 channel surround sound.
The XMC-1 will offer you the option of choosing various Matrix Surround Sound Processing Modes
where appropriate.
Operating the XMC-1
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