are rear surround sound speakers having same sound


Are rear surround sound speakers being feed the same signal? So there is no stereo signal at the back on 7.1 ht set up.
cip57
My understanding of Logic 7, when used with a 5.1 source and driving a 7.1 speaker array for example, is it will process the two surround channels and make a determination of where to send the surround information. It reallocates the surround information across four surround speakers rather than two, depending on where it thinks the audio engineer wants the sound to emanate, to provide 7.1 discrete outputs. This allocation is dynamic, depending on signal content.

I do not know how DPLIIx works, but my guess is it's a similar concept to Logic 7 but with a different algorithm.

Thanks
Bruce
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