5.1 CS Converter
 

Anyone seen this?


http://aznfilms.com/product_info.php/products_id/820

any comments?

Pretty useless. This is exactly what Pro Logic II and DTS: Neo 6 does. Pretty much all recent receivers, even lower end ones, have these features.

I wouldn't say totally useless. Yes, it does the same thing that ProLogic II and DTS Neo 6 do, but they all have different methods of doing it and different "sounds" to them. I'd say it's probably not necessary if you have a receiver with ProLogic II, but if your receiver only does regular old ProLogic (and has 6 channel analog inputs) it might be useful.

I have a Yamaha DSP-A595 Dolby Digital amp which, although very good, only does basic pro logic, plus a handful of DSP soundfields (not very good). No DTS.

It also has 6ch decoder input sockets. Do you think it would be useful to me? And if so, how?

Reading through the product review on that site, I am now feeling dubious about the merits of this product.

Why?

Is there any chance you could illaborate?
I thought it sounded pretty good!

The review is filled with technical misinformation and implies that this converter box would be hooked up directly to the speakers and replaces your surround sound receiver, which doesn't make any sense to me unless the speakers have their own amplifiers.