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OK, before folks jump on this seemingly inane question, let me explain. I currently have a music system with ML Aerius' and Accurus P/A & Amp. The system resides in our family room,(approx 15 x 17 w 8' ceiling). The system however does more duty as "HT" for our DVD and 36" Wega. As such I'd like to: either a) flesh out the current system with ML Cinema, Scrips, sub and a virtually new STR-DA50ES DTS receiver that I was given, or b) pick up a M&K 750THX system. Besides the obious $ parameter, one of my chief concerns is that while I've enjoyed the ML's for three years now, I find they primarily shine on accoustic music,(do they ever!), but seem to find them distant and reticent on the dialogue when it comes to movies. Does anyone have any relevant thoughts on this. Also can I expect to be terribly let down by the M&K's on music source material? I suppose I could keep the ML's for music listening. Thanks in advance for your thoughts...
I don't think the dialogue problem you've noted is inherently an electrostatic problem. In some respects, it's a mixing issue. For a great sidebar discussion of what's happened, check out the current issue of The Perfect Vision. In a nutshell, the center channel houses dialogue, and it is still mixed/calibrated according to reference levels that are effectively ignored for the effects channels.It will help to get a dedicated center channel speaker (or two). I've always found that it's not a matter of imaging ability with a phantom center, but a matter of making dialogue more distinct. Also, you can, with a center speaker, boost the volume of the center channel a bit so that dialog is more to your taste. Get the ML center.
If you like the sound of ML's, I can't imagine that you'd be happy with the M&K movie sound.
Hi EdI cannot speak very intelligently in answer to some of your queries but I suspect your problems of poor speech intelligability does lot lie with you MLs. We have similar electrostatic units which double for music & HT. Your praise of the MLs for music but condemnation for HT suggest to me that your HT amplification/set up is deficient. I'm not criticising what you have as I am unfamiliar with it but pass the generalisation that HT gear is usually rather inferior to music electronics. Be prepared to dig in the pocket if you want the one room to do both. We are in exactly the same position as you - the one music/HT room & I feel that the dollars spent on top audio sound have paid dividends in top HT sound.
Hope this is of some help
Peace at AA
John
Hi John,
Thanks for your response.
I should probably clarify my dialogue "problem"...Two things come to mind:
First, on some source material there is no problem, on others the voices are not that great. I think this points to what most say about ML's; that they are very revealing of less than optimal recordings,(I find this with music as well..).
Second, Typically what happens in those situations is that I turn up the volume to hear the dialogue, only to be blown out of my seat when a louder event occurs on screen, (not a bomb...just anything louder...).
All in all I was wondering if for HT, which is what this system is primarily used for, if it was worth the extra 5K or so to flesh it out with ML's, additional power, etc.
Be Well,
Ed
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