Hello forum.
Hoping for a bit of advice re: my home cinema speaker/amp setup if possible. Currently have:
* Yamaha DSP-E800 processor/amp (for centre speakers/sub/rears)
* Arcam Alpha 8R amp (for front speakers)
* Mission 752 Freedom front speakers
* Mission 75C centre speaker
* Mission 77DS rear speakers
* Paradigm PDR-10 subwoofer
All a bit old skool but decent kit and I like it. Except...that I occasionally wonder about the rear speakers. They sound a bit hollow and "boxy" to me compared to the others, and there ain't a lot of bass. From what I've read, the rears didn't matter so much back in the Pro-Logic days because they didn't do a great deal and the frequency range was restricted, etc. - but these days when I'm watching lots of stuff in Dolby Digital/DTS, should I be thinking of upgrading the rears to something a bit better?
Also a little confused about all the bipole/dipole design (such as these rears have, I gather) creating a broad sound field behind the listener vs a "normal" monopole speaker. I wondered about using some "normal" speakers for the rears (perhaps a smaller pair of Missions or even another pair of 752s) but I then read that this might be a mistake and that the sound behind the listener would then become so "localised" at close range that it would be annoying/irritating.
Does anyone have any advice please? This is mainly for watching films and TV programmes in surround sound rather than music. My music collection goes through the Arcam/Mission 752Fs nicely already, no particular need to change any of that.
Thanks!
Alan.
Hoping for a bit of advice re: my home cinema speaker/amp setup if possible. Currently have:
* Yamaha DSP-E800 processor/amp (for centre speakers/sub/rears)
* Arcam Alpha 8R amp (for front speakers)
* Mission 752 Freedom front speakers
* Mission 75C centre speaker
* Mission 77DS rear speakers
* Paradigm PDR-10 subwoofer
All a bit old skool but decent kit and I like it. Except...that I occasionally wonder about the rear speakers. They sound a bit hollow and "boxy" to me compared to the others, and there ain't a lot of bass. From what I've read, the rears didn't matter so much back in the Pro-Logic days because they didn't do a great deal and the frequency range was restricted, etc. - but these days when I'm watching lots of stuff in Dolby Digital/DTS, should I be thinking of upgrading the rears to something a bit better?
Also a little confused about all the bipole/dipole design (such as these rears have, I gather) creating a broad sound field behind the listener vs a "normal" monopole speaker. I wondered about using some "normal" speakers for the rears (perhaps a smaller pair of Missions or even another pair of 752s) but I then read that this might be a mistake and that the sound behind the listener would then become so "localised" at close range that it would be annoying/irritating.
Does anyone have any advice please? This is mainly for watching films and TV programmes in surround sound rather than music. My music collection goes through the Arcam/Mission 752Fs nicely already, no particular need to change any of that.
Thanks!
Alan.