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Re: Please help an HT Newbe with center channel question

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Brian,

You have more choices than you are being led to believe. For starters go into your DVD players setup and choose the PCM stereo soundtrack. There is no DVD without a PCM soundtrack as one of the options. It is very rare (although it happens) that the uncompressed PCM stereo sountrack won't be superior to the multichannel DD/DTS.

If you don't like this improvement enough then the next step up could be a nice DAC if your DVD player has a digital out.
If understood and done right the low to mid budget HT will sound much better in stereo (uncompressed PCM). It's simple math. Dividing your budget by two gets you better quality per channel than dividing by 5,6,or even 7. IMO

Ken


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