1st Post Intro & Ramblings


Hi all, I have been a member for about 10 years and never posted anything although I do read a lot. Figured at some point I would, 10+ years later......

 Profession, Audio Visual Tech 22 years. I mostly work in house corporate, conventions and trade shows. Spent some time building clubs, worked a few concerts and home audio has been more of a hobby for a very long time and I have designed and built a few very high end setups years ago. I always hated working professionally on home audio, the customers and sales people are either to cheap or knee deep in marketing and cannot take advice from professionals. My experience has led me to be more aware of the budget, a vast majority cannot spend $10-20k on a stereo and yet some of us spend that on a just 1 component. 
I think that will suffice as an introduction, next I will post some of what I have learned along the way. Keep in mind, most of my recommendations come with a budget mindset instead of $$$ all out performance $$$.
kreapin
Center can only be mono, there is no left and/or right to create a stereo image 
I was really thinking what happens if you play a mono CD, or a record I guess, through the surround system. Mono as in, let’s say, 1951 recording. Real mono from the start, not anything downmixed or processed in some similar way.

I have never had an opportunity to hear that, but I am interested if anyone has paid attention to it. If I had to guess, if all chanells are playing the same, the sound should be right in the middle of the room. In some way, right in the spot where a listener would be ideally sitting. That is just my guess, not my claim.
Center can create an image with either of the left or right speakers that lies between the two. That should be obvious.
a mono recording cannot recreate an image. Center cannot create an image with any other speaker, time alignment and yada yada ya..... back to basics and equilateral triangle