Video Asylum

Posted by cfraser (A) on March 13, 2009 at 14:39:32

In Reply to: RE: I've been wanting to post about 7.1 posted by David Aiken on March 13, 2009 at 14:18:07

the PLIIx does a great job with the back speakers. Really good. With typical 5.1 mixes (drama, comedy), the backs are mostly silent even when enabled. Not for most action flicks though.

Last night I watched a real highbrow flick (Tarantino [acting]/Clooney/Keitel...guess LOL, BD only in Canada) and with PLIIx on for the backs I could hear lots of stuff very clearly going on behind me, which made sense because my POV as viewer was in the middle of a barroom brawl (to put it mildly). I'm only using this film and scene as an e.g. because it was yesterday, plenty of others. Oh yeah, I eat up that type of stuff, way too late to grow up now...

Are the backs worth the $$? Probably not, but who doesn't have a spare set of speakers hanging around? They don't have to be that great to do the job, and for most people will have to be smallish anyway. I'm the opposite of David: I couldn't fit a single back speaker due to my room config (floor-to-ceiling window in middle of back wall, covered though) so had to go for two.