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A lot of it depends on your room dimension.

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In Reply to: RE: 5.1 or 7.1? posted by Skye on January 18, 2008 at 10:52:23

A Squarish room suggests 7.1 won't be of much benefit, but a longer room (with display on the short wall) with rear surround speakers and side fills might make 7.1 desirable; Provided you have the budget for a 7.1 speaker/amp implementation.
One question I'm curious about is when are the audio processors going to be able deal with 5.1 or 7.1 24/96 PCM, TrueHD, and DTS HD MA audio tracks and 'process' it for optimum audio distribution based on number of speakers available (5.1 or 7.1)? Not to mention dealing with bass management and/or time alignment issues.

Edits: 01/18/08

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Good point, I think a lot of rooms are too small for good surround sound. I do plain old stereo ..nt - late 09:21:10 01/20/08 (1)
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- Ideally, the HT room is large. Mine is tiny, and I've set it up for 7.1 - Jazz Inmate 18:49:19 01/20/08 (0)
  If I can do it, with B&W Nautilus and Diamond gear in a tiny room, anyone can set up 7.1. At the very least you need to figure out how to set up a 5.1 system because you're missing out on too much of the HT experience.
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  Edits: 01/21/08

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