Are you talking about DPLII-M or C? The front channel separation in DPLII-M is completely adjustable as mentioned above by sdurani. On my system, due to placement limitations, by center speaker is on top of the screen, significantly higher than the mains. I played around with the center width setting and it had the interesting effect of pulling the center channel down as I approached phantom center. I think it is one or two notches below full phantom. But even with center fully on it is not the extreme stereo collapse that happens with old DPL.