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Old 14th March 2008   #44
Timsplace
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I'd take surround if it were 3.1! Having a "Real" center as apposed to a Phantom center is a beautiful thing. My biggest issue with surround is the crappy downmix. You go to all this trouble to create an amazing space and (in my world anyway-live TV) most people still listen to the fold-down of the 5.1. Those spacious 5.1 reverbs get summed to mud. If you have to deal with the fold down to stereo (as apposed to a remixed stereo) it puts a bit of a limit to what you can do in your mix.

Tim
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