Hi,

Yes, you are going about this the wrong way. Don't use that enhanced stereo mode, because it will indeed route the vocals into the QS8s. If you are running conventional stereo material or the 5.1 recordings in NAD's "enhanced" stereo mode, then the QS8s would theoretically image the way you describe it. That isn't how they are intended to be used.

If any of the NAD modes route main- or center-channel stuff into the QS8s, then that's what will happen.

Why not play back the material the way it was intended? Or use Dolby Pro Logic II to decode the stereo CDs into quasi 5.1? DPLII will route ambient material into the QS8s and leave vocals in the front center (roughly) where they belong.

Regards,

Alan Lofft,
Axiom Resident Expert (Retired)