Surround back speaker. Same as front center?


New to H/T . Is the signal to the Surrond Back Speaker ( not the left and right surronds) the same as the center channel or is it delayed to give a H/T effect?
Thanks!
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The center rear surround speaker(s) is a separate channel from the center front speaker on Dolby & DTS ex/es. On source material that does not originally have the 7 channel configuration the center rear channels usually are summed from the 2 side channels assuming a 7.1 processor. On 5.1 systems the rear channel info is summed to the side channels. Original specification called for all 5 (or 6 or 7) speakers to be the same, usually with integration into stereo systems compromises are made.