Nope. Phantom works everywhere. Whether it's better or not seems to depend on the room.
Has Revel responded to you yet? Will they be changing their speaker design to get the weights to match since "No real need to get into graphs. It’s just about physics" - their speakers are obviously done wrong?
Phantom center is one of the things that has improved even more so with modern speakers that is not only noticeable, but inescapable. With the 12" SEOS horn speakers, it freaks me out how far off center I can move before it falls apart. I almost have to put my head right next to one speaker or the other.
I'm currently 2ft from a screen, 3ft away from each LR speaker. That complete phantom center image is what keeps me from needing to go beyond 2.1 channel systems, either for movies, music, or video games. Again most noticeable when there is a panned sound like a slow flying airplane that starts from behind, all the way across to the other side and off into the distance without any drop in the effect, even when moving one's head with it. In my case, a center speaker would be redundant.
