Speaker placement for 7.1 - wide spaced rears or together? - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com

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Speaker placement for 7.1 - wide spaced rears or together?

Just when I thought the placement of rear left/right and surround left/right was pretty much decided on and accepted as being the 'standard' configuration as demonstrated on Dolby's own website, I now find that THX recomended both rear surrounds should be "as close together as possible" (surely one speaker is theoretically better than two if this is the case?)

If this configuration is only recommended for THX then what are they playing at?

Do the imagine that people will use their configuration at the expense of DTS, SACD and DVD-A replay?

Ridiculous.
My current processor defaults to THX whenever possible so I'll just have to change the settings and the much vaunted THX Ultra 2 capability will be redundant.

Cheers George!

Best Regards,
Chris redmond.

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Topic - Speaker placement for 7.1 - wide spaced rears or together? - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 07:08:15 07/20/08 (2)

RE: Speaker placement for 7.1 - wide spaced rears or together? - Ky Colonel 11:31:03 07/21/08 (0)

speaker placement for 7.1 - Joe Murphy Jr 18:56:30 07/20/08 (0)

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