Quote Originally Posted by eqm
Don't you know for a REAL THX SYSTEM you need to hook up your left rear and right rear opposite!!!!?????!!!!!

Oh yeah...and if you don't have EVERY SINGLE ONE of your speaker wires the exact same length....that is so totally your problem.....!!!
Thanx for reminding me, I totally forgot that with a real THX system, the music is supposed to be in sync between the front and back speakers, but the sound effects are supposed to come from opposite sides. Lucasfilm is just smarter than all of us, they're actually doing this according to how sensory information travels through the brain and matching the sound elements to how that information gets processed.

What we hear in our left ear gets processed through our right brain hemisphere, and vice versa. Music is an emotional experience and is therefore processed in the right hemisphere, whereas dialog and sound effects are logical constructs that our left brain hemisphere processes.

By reversing the music tracks in the surrounds and keeping the logical balance with the dialog and effects, that movie is better optimizing our synaptic energy. Now that I think about it, it's actually Jedi, Empire, and every other DVD in my collection that's defective. Star Wars is the ONLY one that got it right!