I have an Onkyo 804 receiver that I am about to hook my multimedia pc to connecting it with a optical cable, I was curious if mp3's were going to be able to produce true surround sound.
2007-09-26 07:10:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
Check this out
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/EN/bf/amm/mp3sur/index.jsp
The download is free, and it comes bundled with a decoder and an encoder. Sp you can enocde your music into a mp3 surround format. It will only play on the surround player as surround sound, but should play on every other player as an mp3 file.
This works best if you have a 6 channel source to encode.
For a list of free surround music check this out.http://www.all4mp3.com/
2007-09-26 11:46:20 · answer #1 · answered by fg3068 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To my knowledge mp3 is limited to 2 channel stereo sound, if you are converting from CD's that's fine, but if you converting audio from DVDs (such as concerts) you'd be better off sticking with the ac3 format.
I've seen articles on mp3 making the move to surround sound, see the link below
2007-09-26 07:23:52 · answer #2 · answered by Evan M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they won't. Mp3's are only mono or stereo, they have no provision for surround sound.
2007-09-26 07:16:49 · answer #3 · answered by gkk_72 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋