"Glenn Booth" wrote


The trouble with centre speakers is there's really nowhere to put them

This has been a real bugbear. They look crap sat on top of the telly. I've
tried mine down low pointing up, then up high pointing down, and all
points in between. They just get in the way.


Yep, on top of the telly is a mess and there's no room under with the
recorders and DVDPs!!



and if they aren't much cop they will destroy the overall sound quality
on anything other than speech as they tend to dominate.

Yep. My Kef centre is noticeably less 'capable' than the fronts, which use
the same driver, but a larger cabinet. It always sounds a bit nasal.
Feeding
the 'centre' signal into one of the larger speakers that normally feed L
or R
front makes a big difference, but I ain't using a floorstander as a centre
channel!


The two centres I did try (Boston and Bose) - were both very good, but they
simply ain't necessary. Tell your amp there's no centre and let the fronts
do the work!! Halfway through your first movie you will have forgotten about
the centre speaker!!



Rears are *almost* a complete PITA (wires etc.) but there is the odd
occasion with movies when they do add to the 'ambience' and effects.
Watched 'Flightplan' last night and there were moments even in that, that
benefited from the rears (airplane creaking etc.) and stuff like Saving
Private Ryan would be lost without it!!

The one time I really got spooked by the rears was in "Das Boot". I
started
to think there really might be water dripping down the walls. In a dark
room
I started feeling claustrophobic. Very convincing, and one of the depth
charge scenes put a stain on the carpet (don't ask).

:-)

Red wine?

Cracking good series/movie that - certainly the best recent submarine movie,
but funnily enough I thought the depth charge scenes were not too
convincing! From what I have learned (I ain't that old) they would have cut
the boat in half - going off as close as they did, much of the time!



Yes and, of course, certain items of certain types of kit will enable a
better central image than others....

(No names, no pack drill, no thumping of tubs.....!! ;-)

Would that be thermionic tubs? ;-)

:-)

I'm sayink nossing......



Anyway, it's the full surround job for me now - just bought a very
cheap projector on ebay, so no excuses! Wifey is now the only
problem, and that amounts to a QA exercise...

Her: Make it BIGGER.


I respect the courage you must have to repeat that in a public forum!!


Me: No, too grainy and pixelated. Anyway, it's already 80 inches.
Her: Don't care. It's a projector. Make it bigger. There's loads
of wall left that isn't moving.


Oh, OK - I see now! My apologies!! ;-)


Repeat ad nauseum. Never mind the quality, feel the width. I
will endeavour to educate her. Again.


Actually I'm with her - bigger beats better when it comes to a movie
screen!! :-)

OK, I think that's Herr Reubke done now - I think it's safe to go back in
and take the record off...!!

(See my reply to your argumentative namesake!! ;-)