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I know this is rehashing an old theme here, but I thought this might prove usefull to others. I searched for an integraded amp, for awhile, smiling only with the Magnum Dynalab reciever paired to my B&W n805's. However, being unhappy with the actual fidelity I instead went south to HT and bought the HTLM-2 center speaker. For awile everything was dandy. Then one day playing around I switched off the center speaker. To my suprise imaging of the movies IMPROVED dramatically. First, the center speaker could not occupy the same plane as the left and right speakers, so the sound always bothered me because the center information floated ever so much to below the TV. Second the sound snaped into place around the TV unlike with the center on.
I played tracks form many movies convinced that I would be missing something, everything WAS there. The downmix from DD and DTS went smoothly. Needless to say I was floored.
Running a search I see that the main complaint is that the image will shift to the axis you sit in. Move left and the sound goes mono. I switched back and forth, center on/off, sat in many different positions in my smallish room, and for the life of me thought, "hey I could really live without the center." The image did suffer but it did this even with the center.
So, are companies trying to sell us just more equipment, for less fidelity?
I think there are some smart people who tread here, lets figure this one out. Why have not any of the "experts" commented on this?
As a side note will DVD-A and SACD down mix the three front channels into two? Imagine just four identical speakers, and stereo amps. No stange multi-stuff. Just pure digital analog dreams. Oh, God, I just realized its quadra-phone all over agian, but with movies.
Thanks
A man trying to get back to the music

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Topic - Center - Keith Chahoc 11:13:12 08/22/01 (2)

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