Recently I was listening to the Eagles -'Hell Freezes Over' DVD. My center channel is sub-par so I use 'phantom' mode 99% of the time for playing DVD's.

This audio DVD has always perplexed me because the instrumentals are so crisp and live, but the vocals lack presence. Henly in particular sounds like he singing in a closet offstage somewhere (maybe I'm exaggerating a little).

So - as an experiment - I changed the speaker setup on the 1050 to 'no center' (regular 'surround' mode instead of 'phantom') - and BIG improvement. The vocalist suddenly took his place back at the center of the soundstage. So now I am a little confused as to what exactly the 'phantom' mode was doing with this signal.

Does anyone know exactly what the difference is between what happens when the 1050 is in 'phantom' mode vs. 'surround' mode with center channel set to off?

Curtis