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  1. #31
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    I'm Mark.

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    Well !! Although I agree matching two different speakers, a centre and stereo pair is not the easiest task it is possible even from different brands and Denzel Washington doesn't have to sound like he's in a box !
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    i know i'm coming to this party a bit late, but i regularly listen to my a/v setup with stereo music re jigged and pumped out over a 5.1 setup using some of the clever jigery pokery in the amp, this makes my listening room sound much bigger than it actually is, the rears add the echo that you would expect from a larger room, the centre does what i believe a centre speaker should do and simply add a little bit of focus to what would be an extended stereo soundstage. And before any one harps up I KNOW MY SETUP ISN'T STEREO but who said listening to music had to be done in stereo, i thought the idea was to recreate a lifelike representation, 5.1 does that and more, i wouldn't blame your centre speaker, i'd blame the decoder, i.e. choose one that works best with the medium your using, if i'm watching a movie i have the amp set up completely differently to when i'm listening to music.


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    I used to have a 5.1 system and very good it was. I then got a Yamaha soundbar thingy and felt what I lost in some respects I gained in focus. You can even add a sub if you feel the need. Dont use it now but I did find it very enjoyable listed and would have no qualms about going back to a system again... amp was a kenwood.
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    I like the idea of the 4.0 setup for music - you might call it quadrophonic - where perhaps two pairs of mini-monitors that disappear in stereo could all but vanish into a 3D holographic soundstage. Nice. You need a powerful surround processor though, with a well specified chip (lots of MIPS) as you've got do some serious computing to put the six discrete channels of a 5.1 recording into four speakers. (This has been my experience with my subwoofer-less 5.0 system.)

    Matching your centre channel as closely as possible to the main left-right pair is essential. The same brand helps, the same range is better, an identical third speaker is perfect. I have had my speakers now for 15 years, and have not been tempted to look elsewhere.



    For me this (or something like it) is the perfect layout for a centre speaker. Tall, bulky and heavy when it was sat on top of my Sony Trinitron, it is perfect now in the days of plasmas and projection screens where it has its own dedicated stand .

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