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What Is Surround Music?

SurroundMusic.net presents the most comprehensive information regarding surround music DVDs, SACDs and CDs. We bring this site to you in hopes that we can best meet your needs.


Surround Music is any form of optical disc containing discrete multichannel music. Right now, this includes DTS Digital Surround Audio-CDs, SACDs, DTS or Dolby Digital Music Video DVDs, and DVD-Audio discs.

To listen to these formats in the way they were intended, you'll need a 5.1/6.1 playback system (where you have a left front channel speaker, center channel speaker, right front channel speaker, right surround channel speaker, left surround channel speaker and a subwoofer plus an optional back surround channel speaker (or in some cases a overhead surround channel speaker). Optimal playback will be achieved using identical full-range speakers for all channels (the exception being the overhead surround channel speaker with a frequency response of 70Hz-10kHz).

Type

Minutes

Channels

DTS Audio CDs

74-80 minutes

6 channels

DTS-ES Matrix Audio CDs

74-80 minutes

7 channels

DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 CDs

74-80 minutes

7 channels

DTS DVDs

up to 4 hours

6 channels

DTS-ES Matrix DVDs

up to 4 hours

7 channels

DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 DVDs

up to 4 hours

7 channels

Dolby Digital DVDs

up to 4 hours

6 channels

THX Surround EX DVDs

up to 4 hours

7 channels

SACDs

74-80 minutes

6 channels

DVD-Audio DVDs

up to 4 hours

6 channels


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