Center-Mains Matching

[Prof.]

tonyvdb wrote:

In an ideal situation all three fronts should be the same but its not easy to buy just one speaker when they are sold in pairs.

This is one thing that has always amazed me...
With all the increasing interest in HT over the years, most speaker manufacturers stiil only sell speakers in pairs!!
If you've got bags of money, then fine..You just buy another pair and keep one as a spare, but for the average Joe it's a seperate centre speaker (usually a horizontal type) that doesn't match tonally with the other speakers..as has been mentioned here..

[Kal Rubinson]

Prof. wrote:

Mike,
I use the "General" setting with no additional DSP added for movies..I find this gives the best "theatre" feel for most movies..
The Straight mode is generally recommended for music listening..

JUst curious. What do "general" and "straight" do to distinguish themselves from each other?

[Kal Rubinson]

Prof. wrote:

This is one thing that has always amazed me...
With all the increasing interest in HT over the years, most speaker manufacturers stiil only sell speakers in pairs!!
If you've got bags of money, then fine..You just buy another pair and keep one as a spare, but for the average Joe it's a seperate centre speaker (usually a horizontal type) that doesn't match tonally with the other speakers..as has been mentioned here..

I completely agree. I am fortunate in dealing with manufacturers directly and, even so, I usually have to wheedle the 3rd speaker out of them.

Kal

[Prof.]

The "Straight" setting on the Yamaha's bypasses the DSP control so no emphasis is placed on the reproduced sound, which is what most music lovers prefer..
The "General" setting mainly utilizes the DSP to incorporate added delays for surround sound with movie producing devices..

I should add that the various modes that are available on Yamaha receivers, also increase reverberation and additional delays as well.

[Josuah]

Kal Rubinson wrote:

Agreed. But if it doesn't sound different, why bother measuring?

Well, I guess that's my point, inversely stated. It seems this thread went in the direction of trying to use EQ and DSP settings and measurements to figure out why the speakers do sound different to the OP. But maybe they're just always going to sound different even if you can get their frequency responses to exactly match.

Has the OP tried listening to the two in the same location and same channel (i.e. signal) to see if they sound the same then?

[trainCatcher]

Josuah wrote:

Has the OP tried listening to the two in the same location and same channel (i.e. signal) to see if they sound the same then?

Not yet. I'll give it a try this weekend.