The truth about matching centers to fronts?

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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited January 2013
    Erik Tracy wrote: »
    However, I will say that my own personal preference for multi-channel music is to pull the center volume down. I've found that when the AVR does its auto-calibration the center volume is too high, imo - the sound is 'mono' with no left/right soundstage separation (for my tastes).

    You might also try downmixing to quadraphonic for multi-channel music. That way you do not miss out on whatever music is supposed to be coming from the center by turning its volume down, yet you don't sacrifice soundstage separation. This is what I prefer. The center channel was only ever intended to ground dialog to the screen--there's a reason we didn't have a center channel until the home-theater revolution. But quadraphonic music has been around in one form or another since the '50s.

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