Video Asylum

Posted by petew (A) on April 04, 2002 at 06:44:33

In Reply to: Need good center speaker posted by Homer on April 03, 2002 at 17:41:45:

yes Homer, I think Estes and cfraser and I have fooled around with this concept for a while and decided that there's a trade-off of weird audio perceptions...having a mono center channel without any sense of space, or an image shift following you around the room...

of the two, we've decided we don't walk around much while engaged in the film, and anyone watching with us dumb enough to sit way over to the side of the monitor--"screw 'em".

couldn't have said it better cf..

the home theater facists are trying to sell us a whole bunch of speakers and amps and wild surround algorythms--what, they're up to 7, 8, or is it 11 speakers now, and so many processing modes the film is half over before i can scroll to the "correct" decoding program?!

I'm a bit pissed at myself for getting a sub-woofer. the main R + L speakers do plenty good at "effects", and are brilliant at LF information in the music audio band. what was I thinking?

few of us have rooms as large as those in the HT stores--with their 10-foot ceilings--so why did I buy all this gear?

i certainly don't need all these amps and speakers to get a stunningly good movie experience in "surround".

now here am i selling it off...i bet alot of us have evolved to this point...right Estes?