Have you ever set up something wrong but like it better than "the right way"???

[Alamar]

When I moved into my apartment [years ago] my primary concern was to make sure that my 5.1 system didn't annoy my neighbors too much.

To get the overall volumes down I ended up running my center channel way hot / turned on "midnight" mode on my receiver / kept the overall volume down fairly low.

Now that I've calibrated my system to what is [basically] right I find that I don't like the way [most] of my movies sound.

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I'm confident that this is an issue of I got used to listening to things this way for several years and now I'm just having a hard time breaking the habit.

Has anyone else set something up "wrong" [either on purpose or by accident] and then missed the way it used to sound once you fix it???

 

[mazersteven]

Why knew a few months ago when you joined that you weren't "right".

 

[chadnliz]

Way back I used to run surrounds out of phase to make them sound better, but no more, now we have better formats and processing plus Di-poles, 12-15 yrs ago it was fun.

 

[Audioholics]

I've bumped up the center channel, ran surrounds hot and goosed up subs in the past. It depends on your system, room, and preferences. Just don't buy a wall full of crappy JBL satellites and run them in networked Dolby Pro Logic trying to tell everyone it blows away Dolby Digital...lol.

 

[mazersteven]

Just don't buy a wall full of crappy JBL satellites and run them in networked Dolby Pro Logic trying to tell everyone it blows away Dolby Digital...lol.

I am going to have to respectfully disagree with you. I have been told by a "very reliable source" that those JBL's ran multi-linked to one another. Does in fact blow Dolby Digital away.

I miss my friend.

In his honor