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7.1 vs 5.1

Finally added the Aerial SR-3's to my home theater and have achieved 5.0 at this point. I built the room for 7.1 or 7.2 capability. Any comments from those that have made the jump. Is the experience of a rear pair of speakers significant? (BTW, the room is 32'x15'x8.5' with the side speakers at about the 20' mark.)
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slappy
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Ive used 7.1 and 5.1 both.

What do i currently run?

5.1

;)

7.1 really is not that big of an improvement if you can even really call it an improvement.

if you DO use 7.1, make sure the speakers are really BEHIND you. If yer back is close to a wall then it is just too Gimmiky sounding.

sounds like you have a good room for 7.1... but i doubt it would make much difference.

If you wanna try it out, i would suggest 6.1 first. If it dont float yer boat, then you only bought 1 speaker
slappy
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Naa, 7.1 splits the rear center channel into two, then matrixes the rear-center signal with the surround signals to create 2 rear speakers to go with the two surround speakers and the frontals.
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