Video Asylum

Posted by Pam on June 06, 2000 at 20:52:21:

In Reply to: Need Advice re new HT setup, Maggies posted by Jim Cate on June 04, 2000 at 08:48:33:

Should work... try setting the reciever to phantom center and drive the Rotel with that and see if you really need a center. I've got my Yammie 995 driving a set of rear speakers and the L&R pre-outs feeding the Rotel that drives my 1.6's and I couldn't find a center channel (that I could afford) that could match the phantom center... If I was going to spend the dough, I'd rather get a set of MG-12's for rears, though the 1.6's sound good enough that I often don't even bother to turn surround mode on (hey, they've fooled me into trying to answer the phone in 2ch mode!), though an occasional disc has some good surround stuff (the rivet popping scene in Das Boot comes to mind). I don't really bother with a sub anymore since I upgraded from MG-12 to 1.6's, but you might need to drive the sub off the reciver for DTS disks.