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In Reply to: Re: Maggies are separate rig, my HT are JBL speakers posted by cfraser on August 25, 2002 at 17:47:15:
and the big old TV would mean the Maggies about 3 feet from the rear wall.... Could work.But, won't the sound going through My Sony 444, even if it goes to a separate preamp, then amp, won't the Sony degrade\kill the sound quality? Doesn't your receiver seriously degrade the signal? Again,, fi this has been asked a million times, I am sorry.
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You know how you can get an almost holographic sound field with stereo when you have the Maggies and your listening position adjusted right? Well, I think using Maggies as fronts you need a center speaker. Otherwise the phantom center seems too dispersed, and dialog gets lost (at least for me), and you have to turn the sound up louder than otherwise. Depending on your source DVD... Sometimes almost ALL the sound is coming from the center. When a DVD says Dolby 5.1, this means there are *up to* 5.1 channels of info, but many have little more than the center, there's virtually no LFE or surround sound. So with these movies, there's a lot of them, a phantom center is not so bad and dialog levels were mixed appropriately.What I'm saying here is, if you decide to try Maggies for the fronts, because of their nature, you will probably have to have a center speaker, one you can independently adjust the level of. I suspect the "dialog enhancer" some gear has boosts the center mix level, but controlling the center level some way independent of the fronts is definitely beneficial for many movies.
And my experience is that taking the preamp outputs from your HT receiver (if it has them) does not noticeably degrade the DVD movie sound for the fronts. I mean, it's been degraded by the HT receiver already, and further degradation would be the only result by letting the HT receiver amplify too... :)
So you're ahead, taking the degraded signals to better quality gear ASAP in the chain.But there's something else. If you have a DVDP with 5.1 analog outputs, you can take the DVDP front R/L (of the 5.1 output set, not the stereo set) directly over to your "good" system pre/amp. HT receiver degradation is eliminated. Now it's strictly DVDP degradation, but have eliminated the receiver from the chain...some receivers aren't that bad, really, to be fair, especially in the digital domain, it's the analog domain where they are so easily bashable.
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