hikerneil

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My Home Theatre Room Challenges - Is It Worth It To Upgrade Speakers
Improving my center channel (for dialogue quality) was absolutely one of my top priorities, and I feel like I accomplished that goal.  We now rarely turn on Closed Captioning, and we find voice quality to be much better - so I feel like we nailed ... 
My Home Theatre Room Challenges - Is It Worth It To Upgrade Speakers
About a month ago, I started this thread and my intent was to gain input for ideas on improving the system that we use for movie watching in our family room.  I have a separate 2-channel room on the other side of the house that I use for the best ... 
My Home Theatre Room Challenges - Is It Worth It To Upgrade Speakers
One more question:  I am zeroing in on adding the REL T7x sub to my system.  This sub has the ability to be wired with both High Level wiring (to speaker outputs) and also the LFE channel. Should I add this sub to my Center Channel outputs, or th... 
My Home Theatre Room Challenges - Is It Worth It To Upgrade Speakers
WAF is very important in this room - if it was 100% about sound quality I would go with some big full-sized speakers, add some huge subs, and add acoustic treatment - but that is why I have my 2-channel room.    
My Home Theatre Room Challenges - Is It Worth It To Upgrade Speakers
I just added it to the Virtual Systems section, labeled hikerneil's system. (Forgive me, I'm new and am still trying to figure things out!)   Thanks.  
My Home Theatre Room Challenges - Is It Worth It To Upgrade Speakers
Oops, yes - the Premier 600C. I can't wait to hear the results.  I will post back with my feelings and feedback after I have made the changes.  
My Home Theatre Room Challenges - Is It Worth It To Upgrade Speakers
Wow, thank you all for the feedback and ideas. I'm going to proceed with this plan: Use my existing bookshelf speakers, since the couches are going to stay where they are. Replace my center channel with a new Paradigm Founder 600c center chan...