Mirage:Highs are missing,voice is bit muddled setup - Page 2

Except for five channel stereo, Dolby PLII and DTS-Neo, pretty much all simulated surround modes on a A/V receiver are designed to produce a larger and/or different sounding space - "bubble of sound" - inside one's living room. And this means generating different types of reverberation - or "echoes" - and most of that emanates through the rear channels. That reverberation is almost always very indistinct; it is played at a much lower level relative to the front channels; it lacks low bass........and it also usually means the highest frequencies are missing or they are intentionally softened.

BTW I think some simulated surround modes can sound good*, but the speakers (proper locations) and the receiver (distance settings, reverb rate but especially channel levels!) must be set-up properly. Otherwise, all you'll get is an artificial, funhouse-like effect that only serves to disrespect the music.


* many DSP surround sound simulation chips contain software that includes soundfield parameters (not sure if that's the correct term) measured at actual performance venues around the world. The first receiver I heard with such a system, and which sounded surprisingly realistic!, was the Pioneer VSX-D2, a $1,600 receiver sold back in 1994. IIRC Yamaha was one of the first to implement such a system.

It all came from my head.

Seriously: some of it comes from reading about it, but most of it came from experimenting with my own systems, other people's systems & even from store demo systems, and doing lots of listening.


Music I like! From albums like Stereolab's Dots And Loops, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing....., Beck's Sea Change, Ancient Astronaut's Into Bass and Time, Thievery Corporation's Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi, Fugazi's 13 Songs, Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty.

Take all that stuff back.. Go thru Vann's and get the OMD series.. Same price and its worlds better. I heard those speaker you have at best buy also and they sound small. Get the OMD series and don't look back. I've had them and they are really good. But I ended up going with Martin Logan electrostat esl's..

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