Disclord
900 Club - QQ All-Star
so with LF from LF , RF from RF, LB from LS,RB from RS....and if you then disconnect the rest of the speakers and perhaps move the LS and RS back a bit would that be acceptable?...
and does the CF really need to be on since it's not part of the sq quad system...
it also makes me wonder if some brands work better than others
cheers
CF is an actual "encoded" position, even if no decoder provided a 'hard' speaker output for it - I personally prefer the sound of an actual "center" VS a phantom center.
There DO seem to be differences in matrix decoding between brands/with time - I was recently given a Denon 3808 receiver to replace my Kenwood Sovereign THX receiver that totally died, and the Denon's Pro-Logic The Sequel decoding is very 'different' sounding that that of the Kenwood. The Denon is "tighter" in some ways, but I can hear dialog pull to the rear and snap back more more than the Kenwood did - it's the same with DTS Neo:6 - but in that case, the 'singing along' artifact of DTS Neo, due to the sub-band decoding, is totally gone, thank goodness - I LOVE Neo, but hated the weird birdies and tones it created. From reading other forums and such, it appears that Neural's decoding has been tweaked a bit over time. Of course, it's not just confined to Dolby, DTS and Neural - Lexicon has done HUGE amounts of tweaking with Logic-7 - enough tweaking that the decoder should really be renamed because it bears almost no resemblance to the original Logic-7.