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It depends. If your DVD player supports 16:9 and your 4:3 TV has the ability to squish the picture down into anamorphic widescreen, the resulting picture is far better than simple letterbox. Brightness, contrast, and detail are all enhanced by packing the scanlines into a narrower format. If...

Also, instead of pointing the SL and SR speakers at the couch, try pointing them rearward, parallel to the wall. This works well in many asymmetric configurations.

I have a VSX-D812K and love it. I found setup very easy, but I didn't use MCACC. My living room has very unconventionall seating with virtually no "sweet spot" so I used a sound pressure meter and adjusted the various channels manually. Anyway, the VSX-D812 is a superb receiver. You won't go...

Yes, you're pretty much describing what I'm hearing. And yes, giving everyone a piece of the pie is what I think I've ended up with. Thanks!

Well, I don't know about the "inspire others" part, but here's where I am now: Using the sound pressure meter, I calibrated all the most common listening positions, thinking I would just use the average correction settings. One immediate problem is that I was getting HUGELY different readings...

Thanks, Bob. I do have the RS SPL meter and that's what prompted this thread. "minimizes the difference from the central to the edge listening position" is exactly the problem I ran into when trying to set up an asymmetric room with wierd seating. In weighing all the considerations...

Thanks for the replies! You've pretty much confirmed what my gut was telling me... In this scenario, the job isn't so much to optimize a given spot as to make most of the room as passable as possible. I've aimed the surrounds parallel to the wall, pointing rearward, and it hasn't hurt the...

All the literature about setting speaker time delay and volume-level assumes the listener is sitting in or near one location. But what if that's nowhere near the case? What if you have people sitting in various places, ranging from the extreme side of the room, to the center, and to the rear? Or...

LawrenceK, just so you don't feel alone, I have exactly the same experience. It's annoying enough that I just avoid DTS.