Standing on the shoulders of giants the might JBL 5674
For all those starting out in the home cinema arena, don't compromise the performance by mismatch the fronts, the goal of home cinema is to achieve the same if not close as possible cinema eventful presentation from the past to the dramatic all round highest dynamics that modern motion picture soundtracks are delivering into today's cinemas.
With some home cinema owns saying, there home cinema sounds better then the cinema, well this may be true to a small degree, if you note the size of the cinema auditorium and it's acoustics, being quite before playing a motion picture soundtrack in one of many digital or analogue formats being Dolby Type "A" "SR", "SR-D" "DTS" or "SDDS", the level of sound presented from the softest too the loudest without distortion is kept within the operational tolerances, of the most digital houses some having THX licence the top dog in cinema presentation.
Some of the cinemas and few newer ones might be installing the mighty JBL 5674, though they are way, way, way to big for the home cinema by far, similar ones of different size should be used to extract and radiate its sound from seat to seat with uniform excellence.
And looking behind the screen you will see no more than Three matching loudspeakers or five loudspeakers for Sony's SDDS digital format, while they five-screen channel configuration as been around for some 40 years it's not new, how ever it is the best.
Some of you I know don't have three-screen channel, least of all some of the newer owners venturing into this complex felid?
So matching the fronts there will be perfect dialogue panning when it calls for this crazy mixing technique, as well as sound effects, music will sound better, with the same frequency response and range too, along with power handling for the dynamic range.
The multi-channel array of JBL 4645 sub bass units blow the screen.
For some that have seen this years summer blockbusters like, "Star Wars Episode 4 Revenge of the Sith" War of the Worlds" and "Batman Begins" and for the trained ear noting the level of the realistic acoustical approximation of the event, its been a cinematic low and highs this year.
So this may not make any sense to you, but I hope that some of you will take the three-screen matching option, rather than compromising it to a shameful centre channel that will work, but not as good as the other two?
So why in the hell would you have two matching loudspeakers for stereo, and for home cinema have an odd one mad, and a waste of time effort and money.
