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Sanctus Jun 14, 2024

Lmao this is so dumb that I choked on my coffee.

… so dumb … but I desperately want to experience the tactile feel of inserting one of these bad boys into that deep tight little jack … :|

brokenlcd Jun 14, 2024

For the next version they are going to introduce cannon connectors for your convenience!

Iheartcheese Jun 14, 2024

/c/sounding

HootinNHollerin Jun 15, 2024

Oh jeebuz that was not what I expected

Iheartcheese Jun 15, 2024

Rip and tear until it’s done

Dolby Atmos is up to 12 channels this connector has 16 + ground

It’s clearly for Dolby Atmos + component video with an inline microphone

SkunkWorkz Jun 14, 2024

The most complex Atmos system you can build is 24.1.10 so that’s 35 audio output channels. Sure the audio is packed in on disc in 12-16 channels. But Atmos is object based so the Atmos can calculate where the sound should play across those 35 speakers.

I was aware that there was algorithmic expansion that could be done, but I did think it was a maximum of 12 real channels (L, C, CR SL, SR, RL, RR, sub, 4x overheads)

What are the other 4? Do they add channels between the ear height and overheads?

SkunkWorkz Jun 14, 2024

I think those are the pure object based channels that a TrueHD receiver can’t use. So that’s for audio sources that will be added across the other channels.

www.dolby.com/about/…/speaker-setup-guides/

Hupf Jun 14, 2024

Dolby Atmos Speaker Setup Guides

Browse our wide-range of Dolby Atmos speaker step-by-step setup guides to find the best speaker placement and configuration for your home theater.

In Atmos, channels going in doesn’t necessarily align with channels coming out

Speaker setups are regarding channels going out, a jack like the one in the OP would be an input jack as no speaker would need more than two poles

GreatAlbatross Jun 15, 2024

It depends on the version of atmos.

Full fat cinema atmos can scale to (iirc) 512 channels. (Things may have changed since I last was involved!)

In that case, it’s a 7.1 bed, and all the other channels are effectively coordinates in the room, and the processor steers objects between them in real time, rather than having defined tracks.

cm0002 Jun 14, 2024

Wait, is that a real connector/jack and not photoshopped to be comically elongated?

kn33 Jun 14, 2024

Nah, you’re right. The speakers get hooked up with straight wire or maybe banana connectors.

realbadat Jun 14, 2024

Or XLR in the pro world

Icalasari Jun 14, 2024

Wait, the lines indicate the channels!?

TIL

puppy Jun 14, 2024

Nah the sleeves between the lines. The lines are just plastic rings meant to isolate sleeves.

eeltech Jun 14, 2024

Its the metal connectors between the bands/lines. 2 connectors = 1 signal (mono) + 1 ground 3 connectors = 2 signals (stereo) + 1 ground

u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Jun 14, 2024

3 connectors = 2 signals (stereo) + 1 ground

OR, positive + negative + ground

Could be balanced mono.

neuracnu Jun 14, 2024

I started paying attention to this stuff back when Dolby Pro Logic was new, which was a pretty clever way to get surround effects using only left and right audio channels. Left and right channels went directly to the front left and right speakers, but it also compared wave forms coming from the left and right channels. Any wave forms that matched got sent to the center channel (like most on-screen dialog) and any that mismatched got sent to the rear surround speakers (noise, ambience, etc). It wasn’t perfect by any measure, but it was a pretty clever hack.

I knew there was some magic going on with DPL, but I never guessed quite how they did it—that was a surprisingly simple approach in the end!

qjkxbmwvz Jun 14, 2024

I always thought backwards-compatible FM stereo was pretty cute — transmit L+R channels as before, so they can be picked up and played without trouble with mono equipment, and transmit L-R separately. Just add or subtract to get the L or R channels.

Fester Jun 14, 2024

For the best sounding

jaspersgroove Jun 14, 2024

TRRRRRRRRRRRRRS

half_built_pyramids Jun 14, 2024

Same joke. Nice.

azertyfun Jun 14, 2024

I need to hear what this connector would sound like when connected to an actual Dolby Atmos system. Do the crackles and pops get specialized and make an impromptu symphony going around your room? The people must know!

JackbyDev Jun 15, 2024

Probably sounds like a war zone lol

… so dumb … but I desperately want to experience the tactile feel of inserting one of these bad boys into that deep tight little jack … :|

MacedWindow Jun 14, 2024

Right that’s all I can think about

mindbleach Jun 14, 2024

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Omgyeesss, that last tak hits so climaxingly good!

Oooohhhhh!! “Sounding”, now I get it!

Souroak Jun 14, 2024

This comment has made my day worse.

onion Jun 14, 2024

Audio Hertz

Ikr? I tried it & I can only hear static!!

Sounding my ass … wait, maybe that’s it! Maybe I had it all wrong … brb

Ms. ArmoredThirteen Jun 15, 2024

I’m currently dilating and while not the same it does involve cramming a rigid object into a sensitive area. Gave to say from where I’m at I still don’t understand the appeal of sounding