Quote Originally Posted by mr. budget
Maybe I just need a dose of reality. I think I'm just obsessed with building my own type of monster system and am not even thinking about movies or music anymore. If that's a proven industry standard, then I should be happy and 5.1 does get me immersed in the movie quite well and can be a releif from a sometimes confusing to the ear 6.1/7.1 set-up. By the way does anybody know what the movie theatre uses?
I at one time was not all that pleased with my surround sound effect from my surround channels in my HT set up. I was wanting to stuff more side and surround channels into my system as possible. I had a 5.1 amp so upgraded to an amp that could produce 6.1. My next step was I hooked up two di-poles to my side surrounds with no center rear. What a vast improvement. I still had a 5.1 set up but it seemed like 10.1. My surround sound was now spacious just like at the theater. I started to get giddy thinking I could improve yet again by adding a center rear. I tried one center and then two center rears. I did not like the narrowing soundfield effect I was getting running center rears, and I have 11 feet behind my couch. I came to the conclusion that more is not always better. I am sticking with 5.1 with my di-poles. For me there is no need to stuff extra speakers just for the sake of stuffing extra speakers.