To get the desired effect, DTS:X uses only two channels and a separate sub-woofer. The company does this by using special digital signal processing instead of reflecting sound off your walls to simulate the surround sound experience. In the simplest of terms, DTS Virtual:X aims to deliver the three-dimensional surround sound of DTS:X without all the extra speakers. DTS:X works with “any speaker configuration with a hemispherical layout”, thanks to the use of the Multi Dimensional Audio (MDA) platform, which is an open and royalty-free standard that allows sound engineers to isolate each individual sound object and, control their placement, movement and volume separately irrespective of the channel assignment or speaker layout. The technology has its roots in the 3D surround sound format developed by Santa Ana, California-based sound engineering company SRS Labs, which was subsequently acquired by DTS in 2012. DTS:X is an object-based audio codec, which aims to create a multi-dimensional sound that “moves around you like it would in real life”.

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