2020-09-05, 08:26
(2020-09-04, 19:30)tigersky Wrote: Thankyou noggin. can you also tell us whether enabling audio upmix has any effect on passthrough audio. it sounds sweet to hear mp3 songs from my sorround speakers too. kodi audio wiki page recommends disabling audio upmix, but i have enabled it and also using passthrough HD audio for movies. thanks once again.I don't think it should make any difference to bitstream passthrough for DD/DD+/DTS/True HD/DTS HD content, as it's only applied to audio that is decoded within Kodi.
Personally I'm not a fan of 'All Stereo' and don't like hearing stereo from surround speakers, as the frequency response of my surrounds isn't the same as my fronts, and the music isn't mixed to be heard that way. (I also want to listen as if I'm in the audience, not in the band!)
It will also not do nice things to the stereo image of content captured using proper stereo mics (lots of classical music is recorded this way) which really only delivers a fully formed, properly phased sound stage if listened to on a stereo pair, but it will probably be less problematic with mono sources that have been panned across the stereo stage (like a lot of pop/rock). I get that it's a personal preference.
