5.1 surround tweaks for Acoustic/Instrumental music

HugoS

Hello folks,

I have a question on regards of 5.1 surround sound. I'd like to get the best effect on which one would feel like inmerse in music, specially on acoustic/instrumental. Currently i'm using Creative's Inspire 5200 5.1 speakers with my Audigy 1 Platinum card.

I've set my surrounder module to 5.1 Movie but i feel like the rear speakers are still sounding like the front ones and furthermore, more silent. As far as i know rear speakers, more than the front ones, should provide that 3D feel of the sound.

I know this is kind of a "taste" question, for everybody likes to hear their music in a different manner, but, if someone could just suggest a couple of tweaks i should make to my DSP panel to make my room sound like heaven, that would be great and i'd preciate the help.

Thanks a lot in advance.

----Hardware / Software configuration---------------
Driver Name:kX Audio Driver (Debug)
Driver Date: Aug 2 2003 22:07:58
Driver Version: 5.10.00.3534 - debug
DB Name:LiveBay2
SB0090 10k2 [c000]
PCI Information:
Device: 41102 Subsys: 511102 ChipRev: 3
Card is '10k2'
Card has MPU device
Card model is '5.1'
Card HAS AC97 codec
Codec name: TriTech TR A5/CT1297 TAT
3D Extension: No 3D Stereo Enhancement
Codec is 1.0 compliant
Capabilities[0] :
DAC resolutions : -16-bit-
ADC resolutions : -16-bit-
Ext Capabilities [0]:
Port: c000 Irq: 5
Playback buffer: 20a0
Record buffer: 4000
Number of AC3 buffers: 4
Tank memory: 256 kb
GSIF buffer: 256 samples
OS version: [2 5 1 Service Pack 1; 2 5 1 Service Pack 1; 156 148]
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Eugene Gavrilov

1. make sure you use the '5.1 Direct Path' preset of the Surrounder (other presets modify the audio streams)
2. make sure you are using Wave 0/1 as your preferred audio device

check your speakers with 'speaker test' utility (right click kX Mixer's systray menu) -- all 5.1 channels should sound separately

/Eugene

HugoS

Thanks a lot Eugene. Sounds a lot better.