5.1 Speaker placement in challenging room

[CollinR]

Maybe I'd see some improvement just running dvd player through an old pioneer receiver i have sitting around. I could use the existing speakers as a R/L and get a nice center channel speaker. at least then I could have "3.1" and boost center channel volume to my needs. I could run digital audio from the dvd player to the receiver, and have the receiver dsp to 3.1

what do you think of that?

Do you have the curve from your last hearing test? It sounds to me you may need more thought into getting dialog into the range you can best percieve then tring to jack up surround sound that you probably can't get much benfit from anyway.

 

[completelyhis]

Maybe I'd see some improvement just running dvd player through an old pioneer receiver i have sitting around. I could use the existing speakers as a R/L and get a nice center channel speaker. at least then I could have "3.1" and boost center channel volume to my needs. I could run digital audio from the dvd player to the receiver, and have the receiver dsp to 3.1

what do you think of that?

Do you have the curve from your last hearing test? It sounds to me you may need more thought into getting dialog into the range you can best percieve then tring to jack up surround sound that you probably can't get much benfit from anyway.

That's a good idea! I'll have to dig it out, or have them fax a copy of it to me...I don't know why I didn't think of that! Of course, how would I compensate for the frequencies I have trouble with?

 

[mdesmarais]

Worth a try anyways- if dialog intelligibility is what you are after, subs and surrounds really aren't going to help much anyways.