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In Reply to: Center Speaker posted by Doug on June 11, 2000 at 12:44:18:

I have a Pinnacle AC Center (2 4" poly midbass drivers, 1" softdome tweeter) and just added Paradigm Atoms (5" midwoofer, 3/4" ceramic metal composite tweeter) as the mains.
When I switch between Dolby Pro-Logic modes (phantom and center) I can hear a major difference. The Atoms are crisper, the AC Center is more laid-back and chesty. However, since 80% of the sound in a movie typically goes to the center speaker, I didn't worry about the mismatch too much.
Then something amazing happened: I was watching "October Sky" and there is a brief (5-6 second) scene in which a train goes by from right to left, with the sound panning across all three front channels. Surprisingly enough, the sound panned absolutely perfectly, with no change in sonic character whatsoever. I was so shocked that I had to rewind the scene three times (over the objections of my wife) to make sure I wasn't hearing things.
So even though Joel is kind of a pr*ck, he has a point: if you have a solid center channel speaker it shouldn't make THAT much of a difference. Not sure the Cambridge fits this description, though . . .

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Thanks Joel 09:29:37 06/15/00 (2)
Thanks for seeing my point of view (I'm not really a pr*ck)
- Joel & Dalancroft MikeP 16:55:08 06/15/00 (1)
  Joel
  Thanks for responding in an adult manner. I deleted your other posts due to their abusive nature, not because you had a different view point. I would have emailed you, but you didn't leave an email address.
  Dalancroft: Future posts calling people nasty names will be deleted on sight. Please don't.
  MikeP HT moderator
  - Calls it as I sees it--will refrain in future (nt) Dalancroft 11:27:57 06/16/00 (0)
    nt
Timbre Matching Tom 11:37:57 06/14/00 (0)
My left/right speakers are NHT-VT2 and I just replaced my NHT-VS2 center with a more full range Gershman CC-X1 one and I have to agree with Dalancroft that in movies soundtrack, more than 90% of the time the sound goes to the center and ocassionally where the sound starts panning across all three front speakers. In my case I have yet to pick up any timbre sonic mismatch between the two different brands (A great movie you can use to test this out is True Lies when Arnold on his horse chasing the bad guy on his motorcycle). In my humbled opinion, movies soundtracks are somewhat more forgiving than music soundtracks. BTW, I listen to music at my other two channel system.

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