Actually JC from Axiom in looking at my photos said I had several problems with speaker placement that might be the real issue. my center speaker is so close to the ceiling that it should be slightly angled downward. My side surrounds are way to low and too far behind my first row. My rear surrounds are also too low and too close together. Basically he said that my chairs being high backs are blocking out much of my surround sound and my center is reflecting off of the ceiling which is distorting the sound. That makes sense because i have had to increase the channel levels of my center and my surrounds to get a balanced sound. I set my fathers up and his center is below the screen. The surrounds are placed differently and the sound is much more precise.

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