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Re: Listening to 2 channel music on a 5.1 system. What's the trick?

Posted by johnvb on March 22, 2007 at 05:16:59

In Reply to: Listening to 2 channel music on a 5.1 system. What's the trick? posted by Quiet Earth on March 21, 2007 at 07:58:13:

I set up my left/right/sub speakers in my 5.1 system to sound best with 2-channel material. I use a preamp to power amps with a HT bypass, where my stereo source (Squeezebox) goes directly to that preamp, an HT receiver is used for movie playback, which also goes through preamp first before going to L/R/sub power amps.

The extra cabling and potential loss of resolution effecting the L/R's movie playback isn't a big deal.

In this system,(Paradigm Studio 60s/570 center/ADP470s sides) two channel material sounds best played back with two speakers. Although for background music, I will use all speakers in a prologic mode. Maybe a higher resolution system with more or all identical speakers would do better with multi-channel music.

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