Are HT speakers best for primary audio listening or not?

@Audiotroy Dave
Thanks much.

I’m gonna go with either works fine IF the upstream setup & room is correct for the intended application.

In this case the driving notion is to avoid critical HT speakers for purely 2 ch musical sessions as the tweaks beyond merely the amp could be varied, numerous involved and sacrifices too great.

There’s no sense in trying to get blood out of a turnip. Beets? Maybe. Turnips, nope.

Helicopters and Explosions are easy! Music is not.



Matt M

My Golden Ear Triton 1 perfectly good for double duty. In stereo they are very fine, musical speakers, in HT they dynamic and powerful, with powered subwoofers (with separate sub inputs) build in,
I just do not have space and resources for a separate music room, and also do not want 2 pairs of main speakers in my room - thing will look like a store and definitely will not pass WAF.
I also listen quite a bit to surround music (new Steven Wilson remixes and some older stuff are addicted), which farther blurs HT-stereo divide.
Perhaps I do not listen movies at 110 db to appreciate the difference, I doubt I am crossing 95-100db threshold.

@Mattmiller > Helicopters and Explosions are easy! Music is not.

Blindjim > Really? IMO movie music lives on the extremes of the bandwidth more than its mids. A substantial ability to reproduce those bottom octaves is an imperitive for HT. not so much for music. Similarly on the upper end. Shattering glass and other material noises movies express there are usually not in many or at all of the albums I listen to..

However, your input is sincerely appreciated.

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@mikhaelkuz > I just do not have space and resources for a separate music room, and also do not want 2 pairs of main speakers in my room -

Blindjim > Agreed. I feel you.

I will or would, set up a mini HT in my bedroom or office for film, though the aspect of total immersion into all the facets of HT are rapidly vanishing for me.

I hope going forward with a probable move in the mix, a home whose ssize can support losing a room purely for HT will occur. Still, it would be done even then on a fairly modest theme. Projector, monitors, subs, HT Proc and class D amps. Likely no 3D, or beyond 5.1 or 7.2, room size permitting.

It could be the least used room in the house, at least by me.
Thanks for the insight. I’ve heard of the speakers you have. I feel their esthetic does not have that much appeal for my purposes in either context, pure music, or purely HT.

but then, who knows what the future holds? I only know who holds it.

ATC are used in movie as much as in two channel music production. The requirements are the same - just more speakers. There is no difference - it is all sound: realism and accuracy are just as important in HT.