Azryan: yes, they do count posts here. You're at 150.

But I guess it should be 75.

(Sorry. Just had to get that in.)

On another note, I've deliberately avoided posting anything serious here because I know I'm not going to change Azryan's mind, and because I personally don't really care if he uses an SPL meter or not (Sorry, dude, I don't mean to be rude, but it really doesn't affect me in any way that you don't use a meter).

I personally think an SPL meter helped my system. There we go; my opinion is known. But my room is far from symmetrical; I do use a center channel speaker, my six speakers are of four different designs; I have different lengths of speaker wire going everywhere, etc. So maybe my way isn't best for all.

And, BTW, why is a phantom center better (if you can get it to image right) than a real center, other than taking up less space? I've heard lots of reasons why it can work, and I can believe that's true, but why not use one if you can?

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Matthew J. Hill
matt@idsi.net