Hi, looking for some thoughts on improving my front sound. I have a Denon AVRX4400 with a LR pair of Monitor Audio Silver 1s and the centre is a Monitor Audio Radius 250 HD. Rears are MA Radius HD and sub is a REL HT1003.
This has worked well for stereo music and surround sound movies. I now listen to more music in 5.1 and 5.0. Specifically orchestral and more lately opera so with the Radius 250 HD centre looking like a limitation I’m thinking of ways of improving the front sound. The MA Silver Centre will be tricky to locate in front of my TV but it is a possible option.
Something I tried today was to remove the centre speaker in the Denon settings so I was listening in 4.1. No other changes made. This surprised me by sounding really good on a brief 15 minutes of opera. Is this a sensible option? To switch the centre in and out in the settings according to what I am watching or have I messed up some indirect setting somewhere. I listen in Direct mode or in Auto (with Audyssey) according to what I feel sounds best.
This has worked well for stereo music and surround sound movies. I now listen to more music in 5.1 and 5.0. Specifically orchestral and more lately opera so with the Radius 250 HD centre looking like a limitation I’m thinking of ways of improving the front sound. The MA Silver Centre will be tricky to locate in front of my TV but it is a possible option.
Something I tried today was to remove the centre speaker in the Denon settings so I was listening in 4.1. No other changes made. This surprised me by sounding really good on a brief 15 minutes of opera. Is this a sensible option? To switch the centre in and out in the settings according to what I am watching or have I messed up some indirect setting somewhere. I listen in Direct mode or in Auto (with Audyssey) according to what I feel sounds best.