Surround Sound question

[cdroman]

Depending on the receiver you are using, you can usually use the receiver to listen to any program, stereo to 7.1 etc. as 7.1. Read the manual for your receiver, you can probably do this. It is usually called 7 channel stereo/surround or something similar. I listen to all my music, movies etc. in 7.1 as that is what I like.

I should add that for my media pc, I use 7 channel analog input on my receiver, from the sound card software outputting 7.1 from the sound card.

For the OP, make that 6.1 instead of 7.1