Dolby Digital

Deep rumbling bass, flying dynamic tweeters, these are the dreams, which bring home theater into the real. Making this happen takes some knowledge of what you have and what you need. Have is the room, or rooms, that you are putting the sound into. Need is largely a dynamic of cost plus ability to obtain. If you can afford it, superior sound becomes what is available. If you have to budget, the experience can still be heightened by using the acoustics of the room and blending in the equipment that will bring that out.

Dolby, the product produced by Ray Dolby, is the anti hiss technology that removes background noise. However, in today's modern audio world, Dolby has become digital and therefore hundreds of times more efficient than when it was developed. Digital Dolby is a product that can greatly enhance your systems ability to match your room. The matching of room acoustics is extremely important to great sound.

"Announced earlier this year, Dolby Labs and Kenwood both gave excellent demonstrations of this new surround sound technology at CES. Invented by world renowned audio engineer Jim Fosgate, in conjunction with Dolby Labs, the main benefit of Dolby Pro-Logic II is the ability to adequately create a realistic 5.1 channel surround listening experience from two-channel stereo music recordings." [Silva, 2006] The fact of surround sound is a fact that is hard for some to understand, it brings in the distance of the sound, the resonance of the image that you see, tires that screech do so on pavement, which has a hollow under effect, and with Pro-Logic you get the sound with weight.

The cost of the type of sound that you want enters the picture only if it is a factor, and good sound that can give out great sound can be obtained for under $500.00 with the use of Kenwood an excellent type of receiver. Kenwood's VR series can be purchased under $500, but "Kenwood is not the only player in this arena. Onkyo, Sherwood, and Denon have their own line of Dolby Pro-Logic II equipped receivers to be arriving on store shelves." [Silva, 2006]

With the many advances in sound technologies that are available on the market today, it makes sense to get a quality sound experience, from the Dolby background has come the latest in surround sound experience, and so we say, enjoy the rolling wheels under that train, the breathing of the horses in "Lord of the Rings," and hundreds of other Pro-Logic II enhanced sound effects, and say thanks to Ray.