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RE: Speaker placement for 7.1 - wide spaced rears or together?

In a THX receiver it should ask whether your rears are close or far apart. My Marantz SR8002thx does. I have my rears at about 72" in between on a 14' wall. However I don't use THX much, I use native with the EX/ES enabled or PLIIx for non Dolby TV with the rears. I have used nothing but 7.1 since the early Denon receivers.

Trust me on this, ask good questions in this hobby and listen or you may find yourself wasting a lot of time and money. On my first Sony receiver in the early 90's I re-calibrated it every day it seemed and moved speakers to the point my wife hated home theater. I had two sets of "sided", one in the sides and ones in the rear, sides for movies and rear for multi channel music. I found multi channel to be a disappointment except for Harmonia Mundi SACD on classical.

I have a nice home theater but I still prefer hifi for music.


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