Use this SPL db power calculator its simple to use to see how much power you have on tap given the distance to your listening position. One thing you don’t want to do is clip the amplifiers.
http://www.crownaudio.com/apps_htm/designtools/elect-pwr-req.htm
What other Bluray titles do you have in the collection? You don’t have Terminator 3 and I don’t think Star Trek is out in the US yet till tomorrow? Whoops sorry, HD-DVD, I got confused as I saw Bluray B region copy of it at HMV.
Also do you keep the fronts at the same height level and the most paramount issue are the fronts matching as that will make huge difference and its not politics its simple logic.
If you played some sine wave tones measured close to the speaker on an RTA looked at each speaker, you might have far too much one of or the other and that’s going be noticeable as well as overpowering the other speaker say left and right one may be too high in frequency output.
I tested mine over last week and found that I had to cut back on the LF over the LCR and playback the pink noise on the AVR that cycles over the LCRS/subLFE.1.
If you where to play pink noise cycling over the LCRS and combine or mix the channels into an audio mixer and play them from one speaker it would sound miles different from what you would normally hear.
It would sound like continuous pink noise without changing tonal character, unless you turned the level of one channel down by a few (–db or up few +db) or put bass boast or cut or same with HF one tone will stand out against the rest.
Which is for an example
L hiss
C HISS
R hisS
L/Sur HiSs
R/Sur HiSs
Something like that lol true that is what you’d hear an unbalanced tone, and that unbalanced tone leads to head banging on the wall (what is wrong with my sound)?
As you know if you move a single bookshelf speaker around or get partner wife of children to move it from centre of the room to the left and right (while you remain seated) it will change tone.