Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Music w/ Center Channel or Not

When I had mismatched speakers (Axiom fronts, no-name rears) I didn't like the sound of 5 channel music at all. Now that I have Axioms all round I find that I generally prefer listening in 5 channel rather than 2 channel.

I still tend to 2 channel for "really serious listening" (ie when I am doing nothing but sitting in the "sweet spot" listening to some music) because the imaging is tighter and because I haven't found a mounting position for my center channel that doesn't colour the sound a bit, but the other 95% of my time I normally just set to 5 channel.

I use Neo:6 the most but some pieces of music just sound better with Logic7 or PLII because Neo:6 tends to either place all the instruments in the surrounds or in the center channels with that particular recording.