"Rob" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

"Keith G" wrote

Stumped. All the kit appears to work perfectly fine!

Confused. The movie dialogue sounds better/clearer on the lesser (2
channel) audio system!


Add:

Bewildered. The sound is not *perceptably* affected by whether the screen
is up or down (ie in front of the main speakers).

FWIW I find stereo speakers just fine. And it gets worse - the TV is to
one side of the speakers. Once I've got over the notion that this
shouldn't work (2, maybe 3 seconds) never fails to impress.


:-)

I'm with you - a good stereo pair and no wires/speakers all over the place
would do me just fine, but this 1080p Bluray palaver has caused me to try an
*push it* a bit!



I did try a cheapish (£400-odd) Pioneer 5.1 system but couldn't believe
how bad it was.


If you are talking a Cinema or 'HT' speaker kit, then I can believe how bad
they probably were - no matter what the sound source, there's no substitute
for decent speakers and HT is no exception!


And I've messed about with rear speakers - while I
couldn't be bothered in the end, Das Boot, with various submerged type
noises, sounded good :-)


Well, in my wisdom I concluded that the new AV amp was a retrograde move and
said as much - until I was reminded how often we had had to run movies back
to re-watch bits with the subbies on and how that had been getting more
frequent, lately!

It is only dialogue that's playing me up - the crash, bang, wallop is fine
on all the various kit. (How could it not be?)