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Surround sound formats
The AKURATE KONTROL is equipped with a wide range of surround
sound formats to enhance your audio experience.

To change the surround sound format:

• Repeatedly press S

R on the handset until the desired format

is shown on the front panel display.

The available surround sound formats, and a brief description of each,
is as follows:

Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital EX

Dolby Pro Logic II*

Dolby Pro Logic II
Music*

DTS Digital
Surround

DTS 96/24

DTS ES Matrix

A standard for storing 5.1 channels of audio
signal on to discs such as DVD-Videos

Spreads the surround speaker portion of a Dolby
Digital 5.1 audio signal to two back loudspeakers
- converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio

Converts any non-surround sound audio signal
into a surround sound 5.0 signal

Same as Dolby Pro Logic II but is particularly
suited to music. Features three user-adjustable
parameters that are accessed via the AKURATE
KONTROL’s setup menus

A standard for storing 5.1 channels of audio
signal on to discs such as DVD-Videos

Same as DTS Digital Surround but offers better
audio quality

Spreads the surround speaker portion of a DTS
5.1 audio signal to two back loudspeakers -
converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio

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DTS ES Discrete

DTS 96/24 ES
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Phantom

3 Stereo

Stereo Sub

MPEG Stereo

MPEG Surround

AAC Stereo

AAC Surround

LIMBIK Party

A standard for storing 6.1 channels of audio
signal on to discs such as DVD-Videos. On the
AKURATE KONTROL the extra channel can be
spread over two back loudspeakers - converting
6.1 audio to 7.1 audio

Higher quality of DTS Digital Surround with the
addition of the surround sound speaker portion of
the signal being spread to two back loudspeakers
- converting 5.1 audio to 7.1 audio

Passes the centre channel portion of a 5.1 or 7.1
audio signal to the front left and right
loudspeakers

Downmixes a 5.1 or 7.1 audio signal and passes
it to the front and centre loudspeakers only

Downmixes a 5.1 audio signal to a two-channel
signal and then routes the signal to the front
loudspeakers and subwoofer. Routes a stereo
signal to the front loudspeakers and subwoofer

A standard for storing two-channel audio in
MPEG files

A standard for storing surround sound audio in
MPEG files

A standard for storing two-channel audio

A standard for storing surround sound audio

A Linn algorithm that sends essentially the same
audio signal to all loudspeakers in your system

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ENGLISH

AKURATE KONTROL

* You do not need a full surround sound loudspeaker system to hear

these formats. If you have more than front loudspeakers (and a
subwoofer) in your system, when you select either of these formats
the signal will be converted into a 5.0 signal then downmixed to match
the number of loudspeakers in your system.

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