Translations:ALSA/84/en

Upmixing to A/52 is frowned upon by audiophiles. As such, it's user preference if you want to upmix all the sounds to A/52 before sending the stream to the consumer stereo receiver or DAC. Matter of fact, audiophiles prefer simple stereo, and further state stereo is still better quality than Dolby/DTS material or other audio encoded with gimmicks. Also, the consumer stereo or DAC likely possibly includes a feature for upmixing audio into five channel audio.