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All I REALLY want is better control over the center channel sound...

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In Reply to: Yes it has been discontinued... posted by Estes on January 27, 2002 at 04:50:30:

I wish the center channel was brought out on a line level jack, like for the sub, on HT receivers. Maybe it is on some receivers, do you know? If it was, that way I could control the center sound quality much better, since it's so important. I find the surround speaker sound quality to be not that important to me, as far as DVD enjoyment goes, so I don't mind that the cheaper receivers only have speaker-level outputs. I could use my current HT receiver elsewhere, so don't mind getting another one if one with center channel line level outputs is available. Or even one with all the decoder outputs, if it's not too pricey. Thanks for any info, I'm new at this too.

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Re: All I REALLY want is better control over the center channel sound... - Estes 14:03:01 01/27/02 (2)
I have found you can do without the centre channel on most movies, if you have the front set up to image properly. That said the Technics has line out for all the channels.
- I will play around some more - cfraser 14:28:34 01/27/02 (1)
  Yes, many movies sound great without the center channel when the fronts are good, but for some reason I'm liking the center channel to be good and the others to be just surround and ambient. I guess it doesn't really matter how you do it, as long as you enjoy the results.
  I did a little looking at specs, and so far the Harman Kardon AVR520 seems to be the cheapest receiver available here that has all the (7.1) decoder outputs, plus a ton of other stuff like stand-alone HDCD decoder. I think it's available at Future Shop, but it's not cheap if it's the one I saw on the shelf the other day, ~$1500 IIRC.
  - Price/Function Error - cfraser 18:50:33 01/31/02 (0)
    In case anyone reads this (??). I noticed the HK AVR320 also does this at a cheaper price, and also the Kenwood AV510 at less than half the 320 price. So I'm not the only one who wants it after all... BTW I went with the 320, and that is ~Cdn$1700 for the AVR520.

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