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Originally Posted by NCThreePedals
Two subwoofers, everyone in the industry uses the ".1" or ".2" as how many subs are in the system so a 5.1 is 5 main channels plus a sub and so forth.
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This is all kinds of incorrect. A person could have 8 subwoofers connected but
if they're all being fed the same LFE signal, the system doesn't magically become 5.8. That was my earlier point. The numbers are derived from the amount of discrete channels carrying independent audio signals and not the number of speakers.
Let's try this. You have one center channel speaker. Why? Because there's only one center
channel. Let's say you split the signal and install a second center channel speaker. Is your system now 6.1? No, it's not. It's still 5.1. Why? Because there is only one center
channel and both center speakers are reproducing the exact same signal.
The .1 doesn't change, regardless of how many subwoofers you have, until each of the subwoofers are being fed something different that the others are not.