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In Reply to: Don't you know DD and DTS systems can be run with phantom center ??? posted by michael w on November 23, 1999 at 13:18:35:
I also know that you can run an Audio Note Ongaku through a broken 6x9 car speaker if you want to.... and it will sound like crap, just like a DTS surround with a phantom center channel. If you subscribe to true 5.1 surround, than a correctly implemented, time aligned center channel is not an option, it is a requirement. Unfortunately few audiophiles have been exposed to a truly high-end surround system with a high quality center channel, thus the bias toward phantom centers - their loss.
Hard center or phantom ?
A matter of taste and operating environment.
To make unfounded statements as you have is plain erroneous.Yes, I have been exposed to "true high end surround systems" (which are few and far between) and yes, those that do use hard centers can sound great.
But this does not denigrate the option of using a phantom center.Horse for courses...
michael w
> > > Hard center or phantom? A matter of taste and operating environment < < <This was the philosophy first espoused by reviewers whose primary interest and background was stereo music, such as Robt Deutsch at Sphile... and who quickly changed his opinion after exposure to a correctly implemented 5 channel system.
> > > To make unfounded statements as you have is plain erroneous < < <
Sorry, but it is you who are in error..... unless you are willing to contradict the more than 200 companies currently offering a center channel speaker (no company that I am aware of builds front and rear speakers onlyand does not offer any centers unless they are catagorized as "L-C-R").
Also, how many surround decoders, processors or receivers do you see on the market that ONLY offer a "phantom" center channel option and no other? NONE.
Your choice that a phantom center is superior is simply opinion, NOT fact; plese do not peddle it as such.
Learn to read Scott, no one said a phantom was superior, merely an alternative.Your statements like dts + phantom = no dialogue is not true, while saying dts systems with phantom centers sound like crap is YOUR opinion and nothing more.
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