In Reply to: Do not be tempted with a cheap centre channel posted by John C. - Aussie on March 5, 2001 at 18:50:02:
these 5.1 mixes and plain dolby surround (matrix) are important, and often almost wholly collapse with majority of sound directed to center and if your speakers or cable is not up to snuff (lower quality, mismatched) then prepare for dissatisfaction. sage advice is to go with equal or higher quality in choice of speaker, cables and interconnect. and then try to optimally orient/decouple(Bluetack?)speaker from monitor housing and its screen reflections to eliminate the "cupped hands around mouth" megaphone effect that colors sound of typical home theatre. (even self stick green felt - from home depot - around inside edge of removabll speaker baffle can transform it by reducing first reflection) the result is above-average, organic multi channel presentation, freed from center channel anomalies.
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Follow Ups
- yep, dreaded centre channel is fraught with peril - gialitt 09:09:14 03/06/01 (4)
- Both of you guys missed the point - Dalancroft 12:05:11 03/06/01 (3)
- yes :) - gialitt 12:50:58 03/06/01 (2)
- Same driver, only 1 box -- still don't get it - Dalancroft 15:37:47 03/06/01 (1)
- sounds like this could be a good solution - gialit 16:40:46 03/06/01 (0)