Circle Surround

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a family member of mine found a circle surround encoder. they own a buisness that pretty much buys out store's inventories when their going under (mostly for the scrap metal).

anyway. they found this circle surround encoder, controller and processor and i cant find out how much this thing is worth. it's by RSP Technologies. i'm currious how much this is worth because i have no use for circle surround sound. if anyone has heard of it, let me know.

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Hi

I have not heard of "circle surround"

There's all the dolby surround sounds, 5.1, 7.1, etc.

Plus, back when I was at Neve, we thought Quadraphonics would be the next big thing and the consoles had front/back + left/right panning. There were three systems back then, SQ, QS and another matrix one I can't recall the name of (from 30 years ago).

But "circle surround"... that's got me!

:)
 
its actually the encoder and a contoller. you would need the decoder in order to run all the speakers to make it "circle surround", and i don't have that. so this give you the ability to "write" audio to circle surround format.
 
I wonder what format it encodes in because I've never heard of a Circle Surround format. From that post about their decoder it seems like they were doing generic decoding like the old Dolby SR. When I searched on it all the links to their company website and resellers were bad. I'm guessing they went out of business.

You might try testing it with a Dolby decoder and see if it works. Chances are they could have been licensing some other format and just making the hardware. How many inputs does it have?

I might be interested in buying it if we can figure out exactly what formats it supports.
 
it has a left, right, center, and surround inputs for a total of four. in the manual, it says that it is campatible with all major surround formats, including dolby. the encoder turns the left, right, center and surround into a stereo output that would then be decoded by either their decoder (which i do not have) or to dolby.

from what i've found, it does look like the company went under.
 
Thats the old Dolby SR format. All the newer formats are 6 discreet channels. L, R, C, Rear L, Rear R, Sub. You couldn't use it for DVD audio either. To be honest it probably isn't worth much for that reason. You might get a few hundred for it. Check Ebay and see if anything shows up. You might see if any similar encoders are being sold.
 
i was just looking at an old musicians friend of mine and on the back page they had a circle surround processor made by gemini. not sure if that helps or not, but there it is
 
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