I need help with questions about surround sound settings

[mike c]

oops. how dare I assume she wanted me to call.
going back "in"
It was me who rang.
BTW, if you're not getting YOUR backrub I'll speak to Tim :)
something's knocking you out :)

On 4/12/14, mary sullivan <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi, friends,
>
> Being married to a sound engineer, and just being me, I need to know a few
> things about settings for surround sound.  It's challenging enough that I
> can't figure out which setting is which with all these digital settings.
> When listening to  recording  in 5.1 surround, what is the right setting?
> If I want the surround effect for a stereo recording, do I need a different
> setting?  My dear friend Mike, is always telling me to just play with it,
> and listen to the setting I like, but if something is actually recorded in
> 5.1 I want to hear it the way the artist meant for it to sound. There seems
> to be a setting for music, and 1 for movies. Any help from all you experts
> out there would be super appreciated.
>
> I miss using dials instead of pushing buttons, it's more difficult for me.
> Do I use DTS, autosurround, prologic, Err!!!! It sounds real good but I
> need
> accuracy.  I hope Tim doesn't need to change the settings for me, if I need
> to use different settings, I need to find a way to do it myself.  Chris
> always did want to teach me about sound,, I wish I had been open to
> learning
> more, he tried to teach me, but I didn't get it.   It all seemed too
> complicated to meet the time, he was working doing beta testing for all
> kinds of cool Lexicon stuff.  Having a sound studio in our living room for
> a
> while was quite a trip.  The apartment was small.
>
> I need to find out if I can control this monster myself, it's a really nice
> monster, a bit intimidating, though, and if I were to study the manuals I
> might actually get some sleep which might not be bad, but that won't solve
> my problem, unless anyone wants to try projecting it telepathically when I
> am asleep which unfortunately, is at night.
>
>
>
> Love to all,
>
>
>
> Mary
>