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Thanks for that Dean. In my opinion we are all welcome to own own opnions and favorte settings. And these are simply your opnions and beliefs. Its not like you started a thread that said, "DON'T BY THE VP150"!!! You've acknowledged that it is a fine speaker, but that you prefer the sounds of other speakers over it as a center. And you are certainly welcome to do whatever you want with your money.
But now I'm scared... as you said I'm in audio bliss right now. If I go trying out a phantom center I'm afraid of what I might discover!!! No not really, actually if you've read my posts you'll have seen when I mentioned that I actually prefer to move some of the center channel duty out to the M80's myself. For me it creates a more 'enveloping' atmosphere. In my 7/5 channel mode I use for music I have the M80's handling about 75% of the signal and the VP150 the other 25%. And it sounds so fantastic I can hardly stand it!!!
It our money, I say we use it however it suits us best. I too believe that the 'usual' set up is just the best set-up for the majority of people, not for ALL people. In my quest to get even more performance out of my EP800 I've been very cautious not to come off sounding like I'm at all dissappointed in the unit as is (well, save for the bad amp and defective speaker). In fact I think its an awesome piece of equipment. But then when it occured to me that $50 dollars worth of Dynomat may make it even better, I figured "why not try it"?
Then Alan reminded me that it would technically void my warrantee... so there's one reason. Perhaps I'll hold off on that experiment until the warrantee has run out? Or perhaps I'll throw caution to the wind and "damn the torpedo's"!!! If it works out it will be worth the risk. I'm definately going to wait until I get my replacement woofer in it to make sure that fixes my clanking problem during movies though. Because if it doesn't I may have to swap this unit out for another one.
