PanaLogic I head of the name and now looking at CA2000 manual. SMART I've heard those ones as well.
There was a Panastereo for sale not too long ago but me being on the cheap side the price was a teeny-weeny bit high. The seller had good pictures on it with all I think all the cards in place.
That doesn't surprise me the with SMART they do come up with SMART ideas.
But the 5 front is old news now but still worthy of wiring up for fun as that is what films are about fun with the sound system.
I have been doing some thinking on using some outboard cheap AVR with Dolby Pro-logic II to create a kinder of stereo underneath surround fitted underneath the cinemas seats with speaker facing upwards, and let it reflect off the seat bucket as it creates a defused surround that IS all around and I pre-tested this idea I think it was very early of last year.
The way I would do it is wire One Pro-logic II to side surrounds and the Other to rear back stereo surrounds.
What effect I think! Would happen is that some sound effects or whatever some phantom sounds will be steered and placed overhead above as MONO that strips the usual centre-phantom from left and right. Okay?
The stereo below surround now how will that work depending on what mixing engineers have placed on the stereo surrounds? The decoder would have to see this way. ARR... (I have to steer this and this) to these outputs and ignore this part of the signal that is being steered to centre front, that now has new position placement on the ceiling.
What to expect from it for the below stereo surround I have no idea.
I would expect to be at least different? it might work out fine or simple trail and error and experimenting and listening.
But if you have money and don't mind spending out on some cheap Pro-Logic II and getting there before I do because I'm fresh out of extra amplifiers at the moment. I could undo the Kenwood AVR in the kitchen and wire that up to stereo surrounds but that means I'd only for a short while lose the rear back surrounds but! I could test the idea in practice. But I know what it sounds like with even Pro-Logic which is fine its not great its fine and does the trick. Do you follow what I'm saying?
I'd do better with action that words. Just stuck on extra amps, just when I have an idea I'm always stuck on one item. Amplifiers. God knows how many Amps the EMPIRE is running now, must be at least 73 or more amplifiers. To think they only ran with the original THX only 15 stereo amplifiers.
Also, also have you ever heard of 12.12 system used by the $6million dollar home theater? Is that made up from scratch custom diy? I don't feel comfortable with speakers all over the floor inviting tripping over them and banging your head on the edge of the Mac amps that have sharp edges, lethal. But the 12.12 idea mmm, and does it have below or over ceiling speakers as I don't see any.
Here the test I carried out last year, took me a while to find the picture. Amazingly the seat buckets when in the up position just miss the control 1 by a few inches, so I'll have to get bundles more of Control 1.
Also the metal seat bucket as I read in some past THX news letter or other mentioned seats with metal bottoms are normally covered with fabric so they don't have any refection issues, that was in old article somewhere I have?? Covering the seat buckets not a big deal and easy to do its finding cheap fabric that matches the rest of the seat colour or near to it.
Below surround isn't a new idea its been tried and I was introduced to Ambisonics when I was doing projection training 24 years. In the video here below surround is mentioned briefly.
Ambisonics and Periphony [part 1]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchandd ... rt-1.shtml
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