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Charles, at least one reason why some might prefer a phantom center to an actual speaker there(which Dr. Toole found to be curious)could be that their main speakers were simply better than the center speaker. The imaging benefits of the center speaker didn't overcome its general inferiority. Use of identical speakers across the front, as is most highly recommended, would remove this problem.

Yeah, I was surprised that point about center speakers wasn't made.

I love these podcasts ,but I find my mind wandering while listening to them and miss out on parts of them. Is there anyway to position within the data stream? I sure can't find one. The only option seems to be to start it all over again.

Since it gets asked about SOOOOO often, Sean Olive's blog on the sighted vs. blind listening tests and the bias of the human brain!

http://seanolive.blogspot.com/2009/04/dishonesty-of-sighted-audio-product.html

One excerpt:

"The sighted tests produced a significant increase in preference ratings for the larger, more expensive loudspeakers G and D. (note: G and D were identical loudspeakers except with different cross-overs, voiced ostensibly for differences in German and Northern European tastes, respectively. The negligible perceptual differences between loudspeakers G and D found in this test resulted in the creation of a single loudspeaker SKU for all of Europe, and the demise of an engineer who specialized in the lost art of German speaker voicing)."

Thanks for this link very interesting read.

Brian, the Musicmatch Jukebox that I used has a slider to click on which moves back and forth in the program.

Oh. I thought I was stuck with what it defaulted to when it opened up, which was Yahoo media player. It never gave me any option to change it. Here at work, it gives me a choice, but I have windows XP here and Vista at home.

Musicmatch is still around? I remember answering phones to sell the product back in '98 or '99.

Looks like you did an awesome job!