I'm no expert but I'll add my experience. When I first set up my system and (on my Onkyo NR3007) I watched the Iron Man BR, and set the AVR to minimal processing for the Dolby HD stream. The center channel sounded hollow, and terrible- prompting immediate- "what have I done?" concerns on how much I just spent on my sound system.
I played around with some different settings on the AVR and now I can't believe how seamless my front soundfield is. I get great on and off axis blending between the VP150 and my T60's. The sweet spot for me was the "THX Cinema" mode. I'm not saying an AVR can make a bad speaker good, but I bet poor processing can make a good speaker sound bad. Any of my Direct, or Pure Audio, or minimal processing modes give me poor performance from the center channel.
My experience anyways.
Last edited by rprice54; 03/27/10 02:08 PM.
