DanFish
Auditioning
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2001
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Hello all,
I just put together an intro home theater system, and I find that the dialog coming from the center speaker is distracting. It sounds like the dialog is coming from *above* the picture instead of from the actor's mouths. I actually prefer the sound when I configure my amp to send the center channel sound to the left and right speakers. It sounds more natural.
Setup: Pioneer VSX-D710S, Cambridge SoundWorks Tower II left/right, Cambridge SoundWorks CenterStage, no surrounds, no sub. 27" TV, with center speaker directly on top, left/right speakers are 5' apart, viewing distance is 8'. All speakers set to Large.
However, I also noticed that the musical parts (without dialog) sound better with the center speaker on. The soundstage seems fuller, perhaps more spacious. The sensation is hard to describe. This benefit is not enough to outweigh the dialog problem.
Maybe this is because I cannot tell the Pioneer that I have just two speakers? I can set and but not . Perhaps they figured that nobody would buy a 5.1 channel amp and have only two speakers.
Did anybody else have this problem with their center speaker?
Can anybody suggest a change to my configuration which could fix it?
Do some people use two center speakers, one below the TV and one above, to minimize this problem? (This is not the solution for me, I was just curious on this point.)
Based on its current performance, I am planning on returning the center speaker, and keeping the money. Surround speakers would be nice, but the room is quite small and they would be hard to place.
Thanks,
Dan
I just put together an intro home theater system, and I find that the dialog coming from the center speaker is distracting. It sounds like the dialog is coming from *above* the picture instead of from the actor's mouths. I actually prefer the sound when I configure my amp to send the center channel sound to the left and right speakers. It sounds more natural.
Setup: Pioneer VSX-D710S, Cambridge SoundWorks Tower II left/right, Cambridge SoundWorks CenterStage, no surrounds, no sub. 27" TV, with center speaker directly on top, left/right speakers are 5' apart, viewing distance is 8'. All speakers set to Large.
However, I also noticed that the musical parts (without dialog) sound better with the center speaker on. The soundstage seems fuller, perhaps more spacious. The sensation is hard to describe. This benefit is not enough to outweigh the dialog problem.
Maybe this is because I cannot tell the Pioneer that I have just two speakers? I can set and but not . Perhaps they figured that nobody would buy a 5.1 channel amp and have only two speakers.
Did anybody else have this problem with their center speaker?
Can anybody suggest a change to my configuration which could fix it?
Do some people use two center speakers, one below the TV and one above, to minimize this problem? (This is not the solution for me, I was just curious on this point.)
Based on its current performance, I am planning on returning the center speaker, and keeping the money. Surround speakers would be nice, but the room is quite small and they would be hard to place.
Thanks,
Dan