Hello all.
I'm planning on upgrading my entire AV system.
Being that I live in a small nyc apartment, I have been using a 5.1 system but without the surround speakers, just the front R & L plus the center channel (and sub).
My question is this:
Am I ruining the 5.1 setup by only using 3 of the 5 speakers?
Should I purchase a 2.1 system for watching movies and TV if I'm not going to use the two sourround speakers?
Or is "3.1" still better than 2.1?
If it IS a bad idea to only use the 3 front speakers, maybe I should set up a solid 2.1 system and run both music and movies through it, yes?
Like maybe I buy two Aperion bookshelf speakers and not buy the multimedia Swans I was eyeing for my computer-based music library and just run everything through the one speaker set...
I greatly appreciate any advice given!
-=M=-
I'm planning on upgrading my entire AV system.
Being that I live in a small nyc apartment, I have been using a 5.1 system but without the surround speakers, just the front R & L plus the center channel (and sub).
My question is this:
Am I ruining the 5.1 setup by only using 3 of the 5 speakers?
Should I purchase a 2.1 system for watching movies and TV if I'm not going to use the two sourround speakers?
Or is "3.1" still better than 2.1?
If it IS a bad idea to only use the 3 front speakers, maybe I should set up a solid 2.1 system and run both music and movies through it, yes?
Like maybe I buy two Aperion bookshelf speakers and not buy the multimedia Swans I was eyeing for my computer-based music library and just run everything through the one speaker set...
I greatly appreciate any advice given!
-=M=-