Question about a setting in my music player

[Rythven]

Hey guys, I've settled into AIMP3 as my music player for its sheer ease-of-use. There's a setting that I can't get much info about in the 'Transform Options' section called 'Allow channels mixing'. It says: "Surround emulation for stereo/mono files. Smart conversion of multichannel files to stereo / mono"
 
I want the most pure stereo experience, so I'm guessing I should turn this off? I just saw a vague response on the AIMP forum to just keep it default, but I'm not so sure. Does Foobar have this option default?

 

[billybob_jcv]

I don't know, but the description seems to indicate it for downmixing multichannel (5.1/6.1/7.1) to stereo. It probably doesn't do anything to a stereo signal. But, turning it off is probably the safest bet - as long as you aren't listening to multichannel sound.

 

[Sattelight]

You should turn it off if you want the original stereo mix. If you want to listen to 5.1 mixes on headphones then it sounds like it might be useful.

 

[Rythven]

Thanks a bunch for the quick response. I may eventually get to customizing Foobar but this should do for now haha

 

[Sattelight]

I'm a big fan of foobar fwiw. Really easy to do pretty much whatever you want after spending a few minutes getting used to it