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Hi Griff,

Thanks for amplifying your comments re the VP180 center and I entirely agree with you. The vp180's bass extension greatly helps the "body" or fullness of human voices and singers. During blind listening tests, I was really pleased with that aspect of what I found out later was the vp180. Some center channel speakers have a kind of narrow-band quality on dialog which lends a kind of "barky" quality that bugs me and that was totally absent with the VP180.

And yes, some film dialog simply can't be rescued by boosting the center channel volume. I'm thinking of some British BBC police series I've liked. The dialog recording isn't good, and combined with some of the impenetrable British accents, no amount of center channel boost will help.

Regards,
Alan