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Additionally, as I understood it, the "correct" placement of speakers for DVD-A more closely mirrors that of the front, left, center, and two rear channels of a 7.1 setup, with the surrounds being the irrelevant speakers.
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Matt,

I'm not so sure there is a "correct" placement standard. If there is, the mixing engineers and producers are not in agreement. I think the Chesky Records' format reassigns the classical 5.1 center and subwoofer channels to left side/front and right side/front, respectively. By side/front I mean 55 deg from center. The rears/surrounds are supposed to be at angles between 135 and 145 deg. Still, other "specs" reassign the 5.1 subwoofer channel as a center height speaker where the speaker is over the center channel, up near the ceiling. I don't remember where that one came from. For the recordings I've sampled, all the channels are full range.

In many, if not most, cases, we're playing these discs on a system that does duty as a home theater system. The producers of these discs apparently think that we're going to have a dedicated system for multichannel music listening and all the speakers are full range and that we're going to go through the trouble of moving the speakers around based upon where the producers expect them to go.

I don't have full range speakers and the 950's bass management on the 6 Channel direct works perfectly for me. I don't have any of the Chesky discs but in order for them to work properly on my system, I'd have to disconnect the center and subwoofer inputs from my DVD player and listen to them as 4.0 with the bass redirected to the sub.