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#51596 - 01/03/08 10:40 PM Re: To center channel or not to center channel that is the question
loopy Offline
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Registered: 12/26/05
Posts: 206
Loc: Central Ma.
Center channel here too.
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#51597 - 01/03/08 11:03 PM Re: To center channel or not to center channel that is the question
openhelix Offline
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Registered: 02/16/06
Posts: 107
Loc: Santa Clara, CA
Center here as well

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#51598 - 01/04/08 12:29 AM Re: To center channel or not to center channel that is the question
wichita Offline
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Registered: 01/01/08
Posts: 10
Loc: Central Cali
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By the way; shielding on the speakers is only necessary for a CRT display and I see you're using a plasma. These aren't affected by the stray magnetic fields of a speaker.
Yes I know this.I started with a sony 36"crt TV so I couldn't use a monitor 3 for a center and now my fireplace is in the way so I'll be doing without the center.
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#51599 - 01/04/08 01:41 AM Re: To center channel or not to center channel that is the question
slbenz Offline
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Registered: 07/24/07
Posts: 125
Loc: Northern California
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Originally posted by psyprof1:
Center channel intended this year but not at the top of my priority list. My Maggies image so well I don't miss it when sitting near the middle listening to music but from an off-center position the displacement of the sound image is too obvious for my taste when watching TV or DVDs. I hope the MMG-C will solve the problem but of course that means another amplifier.
As another Magnepan owner, I use an Eminent Technology LFT-XII for my center. I demoed Magnepan and Martin Logan centers with my IIIa but the ET integrated the best for me. Because it is not only me listening to my home theater, the center channel is necessary, I think, for all to enjoy the movie experience.

Slbenz

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#51600 - 01/04/08 02:54 PM Re: To center channel or not to center channel that is the question
RedSIinPA Offline
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Registered: 12/28/06
Posts: 278
Loc: Outside Phila.
Center here - matched to my mains. Essential to HT viewing for me, not essential to music.
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#51601 - 01/16/08 05:08 AM Re: To center channel or not to center channel that is the question
Paul J. Stiles Offline
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Registered: 05/24/02
Posts: 279
Loc: Mountain View, CA, USofA
No center channel for me. My fronts are Acoustat 2+2s and the rears are 1+1s. I am thinking about making a center channel speaker out of extra Acoustat parts I have.

Paul
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#51602 - 01/16/08 03:13 PM Re: To center channel or not to center channel that is the question
Altec Offline
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Registered: 01/06/08
Posts: 334
Center that uses the same HF horn, but I rarely use it.

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#51603 - 01/20/08 12:49 AM Re: To center channel or not to center channel that is the question
Brandon B Offline
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Registered: 05/01/02
Posts: 130
Loc: Louse Angeles, CA
Another maggie user with no center. As the others noted, the image definitely floats off to one side if you are not seated centrally, and I will eventually get one, but with the pulldown screen and the RPTV, nowhere for it to live in the system right now. So I'd say if you can have one, get one. Unless you always listen alone.

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