Hey all!
One of the great tests of a "good" home theater setup is the ability for a character to be walking "across" the screen while talking and have their voice start on the left speaker, cross to the middle, and then over to the right speaker while talking.
On bad systems, this sometimes shows up as one or more of the locations the voice "shrinks" and becomes boxy or the tonal characteristics of the voice change, or whatever.
This is obviously why matched (or preferrably identical) front three is considered desireable.
With the Martin Logan line, there is no Identical choices, and all the current center channels use tweeters for their high end range. I have not had the delight of testing this out for myself, but I'm wondering if ML Center channel owners could comment on this, and I wonder if I could ask the community as a whole why ML left the seemingly superior Logos design (with no upper crossed-tweeter) for the current tweeter designs?
Another alternative I've seen some here explore is going without a center channel at all, but I'm worried that would impact the Home Theater sweetspot too negatively (possibly just ONE good seat in the house -- not good enough!)
Thanks!
Oh about me! I'm a former Aerius owner who is currently saving up -- if I save enough I'll purchase Vantages or Summits, and if I run across a good deal on Clarities/Aeons/Etc I may just purchase those ... I am just really stumped on this Center channel idea (no authorized dealers within 100 miles of me)
-Allen
-Allen
One of the great tests of a "good" home theater setup is the ability for a character to be walking "across" the screen while talking and have their voice start on the left speaker, cross to the middle, and then over to the right speaker while talking.
On bad systems, this sometimes shows up as one or more of the locations the voice "shrinks" and becomes boxy or the tonal characteristics of the voice change, or whatever.
This is obviously why matched (or preferrably identical) front three is considered desireable.
With the Martin Logan line, there is no Identical choices, and all the current center channels use tweeters for their high end range. I have not had the delight of testing this out for myself, but I'm wondering if ML Center channel owners could comment on this, and I wonder if I could ask the community as a whole why ML left the seemingly superior Logos design (with no upper crossed-tweeter) for the current tweeter designs?
Another alternative I've seen some here explore is going without a center channel at all, but I'm worried that would impact the Home Theater sweetspot too negatively (possibly just ONE good seat in the house -- not good enough!)
Thanks!
Oh about me! I'm a former Aerius owner who is currently saving up -- if I save enough I'll purchase Vantages or Summits, and if I run across a good deal on Clarities/Aeons/Etc I may just purchase those ... I am just really stumped on this Center channel idea (no authorized dealers within 100 miles of me)
-Allen
-Allen