What's a good center for listening to dts music? ?polkr350,r400,LSiM706c.jbl520c?

[sysfc6]

What's a good center for listening to dts music? ?polkr350,r400,LSiM706c.jbl520c?

 

[alex-z]

Whichever most closely matches the radiation pattern of your front L/R, which is most likely the LSiM706c due to its 3 way design.

 

[staticV3]

Look for a three-way center with either vertically stacked midrange driver and tweeter:


Or with a coaxial midrange/tweeter in the middle:


These will (generally) give you smooth horizontal directivity:


Stay away from traditional 2-way MTM designs:


As these will inevitably have very uneven directivity:



Erin from Erin's Audio Corner explained the issue in his video here.

Be aware that there are some 3-way designs that still have this issue because they let their woofers play way too high. Here's an example:

Aperion Audio Verus V6C 3-Way Dual 6.5 Center Channel Speaker Review

Aperion Audio Verus 10

www.erinsaudiocorner.com

Among others, you can find directivity measurements on EAC, Stereophile, and here on ASR.

 

[Chrispy]

An identical speaker/orientation to your L/R would be ideal. Otherwise I agree with the others on 3ways.

Curious, just what is DTS music?

 

[sysfc6]

An identical speaker/orientation to your L/R would be ideal. Otherwise I agree with the others on 3ways.

Curious, just what is DTS music?

The so-called DTS track uses the 5.1 channel standard encoded by DTS (Digital Theater Systems). The maximum encoding throughput of DTS is the same as that of LPCM, i.e., 48,000*16*2=1536,000bps = 1536kbps. In relative terms, this is much greater than the 448kbps provided by another popular multichannel encoding system, Dolby Digital (AC3). --Comparatively speaking, this is much larger than the 448kbps provided by another popular multichannel coding system, Dolby Digital (AC3), which means that DTS has much less distortion in the compression of multichannel sound products. This feature gives DTS an inherent advantage in the multichannel encoding system.

 

[Chrispy]

The so-called DTS track uses the 5.1 channel standard encoded by DTS (Digital Theater Systems). The maximum encoding throughput of DTS is the same as that of LPCM, i.e., 48,000*16*2=1536,000bps = 1536kbps. In relative terms, this is much greater than the 448kbps provided by another popular multichannel encoding system, Dolby Digital (AC3). --Comparatively speaking, this is much larger than the 448kbps provided by another popular multichannel coding system, Dolby Digital (AC3), which means that DTS has much less distortion in the compression of multichannel sound products. This feature gives DTS an inherent advantage in the multichannel encoding system.

There's a difference between DTS encoded cds and movies or using an upmixer, why I asked. I don't believe DTS, the lossy movie encoding, is anywhere near 1536kbps. I just looked at one DTS 5.1 optical disc I have and it reports 1258kbps. Not sure how you relate it to distortion particularly, tho.

ps have no idea what the 1258 is particularly representing.....per channel seems too high a bandwidth.

 

[Beave]

Chrispy, I'm betting he copied that text from somewhere.

 

[sysfc6]

Chrispy, I'm betting he copied that text from somewhere.

Haha, yes