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Julian - John, I am surprised to hear that most multichannel preamps appear compromised. Are there any designed and dedicated strictly for multichannel music minus the HT decoders?Dave
I also wanted to ask about the toe-in recomendation for VMPS speakers. I was curious as to what you fellows hear when these speakers are crossed 1' in front of you, compared to direct beaming and then crossing just behind your head. How does the image appear to change to you?
I would point out that this dicussion is VERY skewed to music repoduction at the expense of movie track repoduction.John is correct that the ITU speaker is what SACD and DVD audio expect.DVD movies (Dolby Digital, DTS, DPL-II, and THX etc.) do NOT.The room itself determines whether 5.1 7.1 can be optomized and if they make sense.Remember that 7.1's goal is to make the sound track of movies most enjoyable to a wider group of people (more / multi-row) in the listening environment. It is not primarily to increase the enjoyment of the "sweet spot". It also opens the palette of sound effects and panning effects for both muti-channel movies and music. It does not however decrease the sweet spot, it is the other things, like John discusses with speaker placement that effect those sensations. ...