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Hope this is the best forum. I'm looking for a new center channel for my HT. I know it's said the center channel should be sonically similar to the L&R but I spent too much on them to hope for a match. I often switch off the center channel but wonder if the pre actually sends the info to the L + R? What I think I need is a quality speaker for movies that are dialog intensive. Any suggestions?
Robert
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I see two other options with these loudspeakers.
1. Get a 3rd same speaker and a projector and a screen with holes for sound.
2. Mix center sound from DVD player into stereo in a preamp. This one does it nicely with its Virtual Center speaker idea.
- http://www.holfi.com/default.aspx?m=products&id=95124760-95b1-4a1f-b742-c4d055e95051 (Open in New Window)
Sorry for not disclosing more info. I was sort of looking for a generic answer. My L-R are IDS-25s.
(more info @ http://www.ids25.com/)
My pre/pro is Outlaw Audio 990.
Thanks
Robert
You have one amazing set of speakers! Seem to be comparable to the ones I had during the dot com boom, Dunlavy Milleniums. Huge 76 inch high 300 lb monsters that sounded oh, so nice. They were 20Hz to 20KHz +/- 1dB with NO equalizer and were time aligned.
Anyways, ignore the truism about matching center to LR's, for no center could match your LR's. Really, you only need to match them when they are so bad that you are matching the horrible frequency response of the vast majority of speakers. Just get a very high quality speaker for the center, it'll sound good enough.
We'll have to agree to disagree about human caused global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along.
At a quick glance it appears they don't have a center channel (yet?), which is suicide nowadays IMO. You may have a tough time finding a center that doens't sound "wrong" from anybody but ... ids25. Perhaps there's a different manufacturer using the same drivers, then maybe. I'd go no center unless you can try at home for a couple days minimum.
It needs to match the L & R speakers. If it doesn't, the tonal change in voices as they pan from one side to the centre, or from the centre to one side, and move to/from the centre from/to one of the L/R speakers can become highly annoying. Music and effects weren't big problems for me but changes in voice timbre drove me crazy at times when I experimented with a non-matching speaker.
I think a centre speaker is certainly the way to go but if you'e going to do it then do it properly. Match the tonal characteristics of the speakers or you're better off running without a centre speaker in my view.
David Aiken
The center channel is the most important one. 80% of the movie's sound will come from it. Unless you are sitting right between the L and R speakers, the voices will seem to be coming from off the screen if you don't have a center speaker, bad.
Ideally, your center will be identical to the R and L, but usually that cannot be done. Get the biggest, best quality center you can find and squeeze it into place.
We'll have to agree to disagree about human caused global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along.
No. Since you do not tell us what your L/R speakers are or what your pre/pro is, how can you expect any useful help?
Your center must be timbre-matched to the L/R but it need not be identical.
What your pre/pro does should be in the users manual.
Kal
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