On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 22:24:27 +0100, "Glenn Booth"
wrote:

Hi,

"Keith G" wrote in message
.. .

I don't bother with a centre speaker and don't miss it at all - voices still
come 'straight from the mouths' with only a decent stereo pair in the front.
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.

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!

It may seem like overkill, but given the amount of signal going to the
centre channel of a 5.1 soundtrack, there is logic to having a '6.1'
system with *two* centre speakers, which can then be placed close to
the sides of the TV, giving both additional power handling and a more
symmetrical appearance.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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