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In Reply to: RE: 7.1/6.1 vs 5.1 and movies. posted by rico on September 20, 2007 at 07:04:52
I know you prefer a phantom front center for your Maggie's (as many do including myself), but have you ever tried your CC3 as a rear center? Just curious.
Also, any recommendations on movies to try the rears out. I know you have an AMAZING collection of movies and I know to some degree your tastes, and respect your opinion to say the least.
BTW, I hope my pre/pro can do the same (it's a pretty loaded unit). I'll check the manual. That'd be a nice option. Yours is a NAD right?
I have to buy a replacement for my rear ampright now actually. My wife's mini-system upstairs decided it didn't like the (too hard to drive) Missions that replaced it's original speakers. So I pulled an old pre, stole my Akai meter amp and improved her system for her.
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Hi Grant,
No, since the rear center is a phantom by definition I cannot use an actual speaker there (not to mention I have no place there for a speaker).
Asuming you have the rears set at the same level as the fronts and that this is done by meter, there is very little actual sound mixed by movie makers into the rears. They provide ambiaence and a sense of envelopment and, like the refrigerator being on and your not noticing it until it shuts off, you really don't "hear" the rears unless you collapse the signal to stereo, then the difference is manifest.
"Apocalypse Now" (either version) and "Saving Private Ryan" have spectacular surround sound mixes, as does "Master and Commander", which to date is the best DVD sound mix. "Open Range" has some pretty effective thunderstorms and frightening gunshots. I like "The Bridges of Madison County" for the quietest, most involving sound mix but unfortunately the only DVD version is the so called "full screen" (a misnomer if there ever was one) so I watch my letterboxed stereo laserdisc version and use the pre/pro's Dolby Pro Logic II (not I!) Movie codec. (I use either of the two Dolby Pro Logic II modes for all stereo material).
Thanks for the comment about my movie collection, 1700 and counting...
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