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Hi all,
My center speaker has an intermittent problem of being over powered by F/L and F/R speakers watching digital cable TV on some channels also during some commercials with a lot of music. Is this natural for digital cable TV? Is it the TV signal? Can it be fixed?
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It really depends what type of decoding or surround processing you're using for those channels. Can you give us a hint? 
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Have you calibrated your system yet using pink noise or built in receiver tones so all the speakers read the same SPL level, normally 75dB?
In addition, many people like to bump up the dB level of the Center Channel in the receiver settings a few dB's higher than the mains.
Position of the Center Channel speaker is also very important, as well as acoustics of your room.
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I currently have a home theater in a box setup “bose.” Before I go with a full Axiom system/Denon receiver I would like to know if this problem will be corrected. I spend about 80% of my theater time watching digital cable.
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Yep, positioning of the center channel speaker is very important. I visited a guy's house once who had his vp150 sitting below his tv on the tv stand. It was pushed all the way to the back of the stand, so it had a good two feet of surface area right in front of it. simply pulling it out to the edge of the stand cleared up dialog completely.
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OK, so I gather no one has this annoying problem watching cable TV using there nice Axiom’s and decent receiver. I thought this might be a cable TV specific problem.
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As long as all the speakers are calibrated with a sound meter or through your receiver I think you will be more than happy with an Axiom setup. I also had a Bose system with a Bose center, I thought it was good at the time until I purchased my Axioms, then I realized how much I had been missing all along, no comparision in center and surround sound.
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I don't even really notice that I even have a center speaker, or left and rights.. it's like there is a wall of clear sound coming from the T.V..
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As Bren has stated time and time again. No Highs, No Lows, must be BOSE 
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