Main and Surround Speakers...Same Make and Model?
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Posted by shoe on February 4, 2005, 7:10 am
Please log in for more thread options I have a question regarding main and surround speakers. Usually rear surrounds are smaller, bookshelf kinds of speakers, while front left and rights are generally larger, more powerful units. Why shouldn't front and rears be the same? Wouldn't that ensure that the quality of sound from playback be equal? A/V receivers send equal power to all channels, so shouldn't make and model of all speakers for home theater use be equal? Can someone smarten me up on this matter? | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Gert Wiersema on February 4, 2005, 4:44 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Why shouldn't front and rears be the same?
Please do!! That's just the way the director / producer / mixer would like you to hear it. In like 99% of households, there's the money and the space issue. Since the rear channels are of "less importance", they can be smaller (as long as the mids and highs can be compared to that of the fronts). LF audio (and you probably know the joke about signals with those wavelenghts) is then "managed" by the LFE channel. There's also the issue about how diffuse the rears should sound. Dipole speakers for instance, can make the sound source less detectable, which is a pre for surround channels. Don't know much about that subject though... Gert | |||||||||||||
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Posted by disway on February 18, 2005, 2:30 am
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When using better speakers (if you had the money) for surround is ideal, you don't have to get the same kind if a less expensive alternative could be found. Just my $0.02. > I have a question regarding main and surround speakers. Usually rear
> surrounds are smaller, bookshelf kinds of speakers, while front left > and rights are generally larger, more powerful units. Why shouldn't > front and rears be the same? Wouldn't that ensure that the quality of > sound from playback be equal? A/V receivers send equal power to all > channels, so shouldn't make and model of all speakers for home theater > use be equal? Can someone smarten me up on this matter? > | |||||||||||||
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