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In Reply to: RE: I second that motion. posted by cfraser on June 29, 2016 at 12:51:11
"if HT is your primary use, then I would choose the center for best dialog reproduction, and "other" features that are desirable for that function."
Not true. This is an audio myth. The engineers have already optimized the sound of each channel. The user should not mess with it.
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The benefit of a good center speaker for dialog reproduction is huge. I've gone through a lot of crappy ones, and have thousands of BDs/DVDs. I appreciate it. I like to buy the tool designed to do the job, just like I use a sub to do...sub stuff, and not a general purpose speaker to do it. A specially designed speaker (driver) for one specific audio purpose. For the center, for me, it's the human voice.
I'm sure the sound of all recordings are "optimized" for something. Your speakers, or mine? Or do they all sound the same? (rhetorical Q)
But a center would be a "general purpose speaker," just like the main L and R speakers if people didn't feel constrained to squeeze it into a small horizontal space.
The center should be the exact same speaker as the left and right.
The horizontal "center channel" was and will always be a compromise because most folks don't have a dedicated home theater with an acoustically transparent screen to place the center channel behind.
In a perfect world, that configuration wouldn't exist. In fact, if you have some of the old setup videos from the 90's you see the setup illustrations all using three identical speakers up front.
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