Looking to buy 2.1 system for my living room.

[jonnythan]

I wouldn't be on a forum asking these questions if I wanted to do that, would I?

The fact of the matter is, it's a bookshelf sized speaker. Damn.

16-5/8"W x 6-1/4"H x 8-3/4"D

Not sure what you expected. Did you have trouble interpreting those numbers, or did you just never even look at what size the speaker might be?

[markw]

Lol.

It's not like I can see dimensions and automatically realize the size. I was at BestBuy looking at centers and they were all far smaller. You could fit two and a half of the centers I saw @BestBuy into this one. :P

Going to be a pain to find a place to put it.

Well, you've seen pictures of it with the grille cloth off and you knew it had two 5 1/4" woofers with a tweeter between them.

You couldn't even figure an approximation if it's size from that?

Gimme a fargin' break

[markw]

I wouldn't be on a forum asking these questions if I wanted to do that, would I?

The fact of the matter is, it's a bookshelf sized speaker. Damn.

So, you're saying you're simply too lazy to do any work for yourself and want everyone else to do it for you?

This well might be running dry pretty soon.

[Mkilbride]

So, I hooked up the Center Channel and put it at a temporary place and have a few fine tuning questions.

Crossover frequency, 80HZ like the speakers? Also, Dolby Surround is what is selected now instead of Stereo, obviously, but for some reason, Stereo sounds fuller. When I do Dolby Surround, all music, sound effects, and voices come from the Center Channel. The Front L & R seem to be doing nothing. I was expecting them to handle the music and sound effects, while the center focused on voices and the odd, random sound effect.

[jonnythan]

The receiver doesn't know what "music" is versus "sound effects." If you're feeding it a stereo signal, it does its best to matrix it up to more channels but there's only so much you can do.

Feed it a proper multichannel signal and you will get more satisfactory results.

As for music, I - and most people here - prefer to listen to music in stereo mode.

[Mkilbride]

Yeah, music is best in Stereo, I get that, but I'm talking about movies. Going to feed it some 5.1 signals, it'll downmix them, but should still come out nice.

[afterlife2]

Man have you even tried reading those things I posted? All those questions you are asking are answered there THERE. Stop playing those PC games and READ man. You are frustrating you know.

[Bryceo]

I suggest Yamaha speakers that way you will not need a sub