Video Asylum

Posted by Auricle (A) on July 29, 2004 at 08:59:01

In Reply to: Home thaeter heresy? posted by rico on July 29, 2004 at 07:56:04:

virtually all of the earlier material (Ben Hur, for example) was done in stereo (general release) or surround for major venues with 70mmcapability. Those surround tracks had no center channel.

But then theatre horns do voice extremely well.

With horns and planars I generally prefer a phantom centre, with conventional systems a hard centre who's volume may be turned up . . . important as most of the dialogue is there.

Hmmmmm . . . given the inanity of most dialogue these days maybe I'll just skip the centre altogether.