Many of my installs come by from the fact they are entertained by my setups I show them first by both video and audio surround. Then they DO select at least a 5.1 setup they can afford and probably expand to 7.1. Listening IS believing and most big-box stores have room for only a large batch of hanging flat panels in bad lighting and even worse setups, so audio is, of course, ignored. If ever the networks start at least offering Dolby Digital Plus, a codec designed with broadcast/cable/satellite in mind with its compression rates, maybe more emphasis on audio will take place. Another thing for the manufacturers to consider is building the panel sets to offer side speakers and include a bottom center (or an all-bottom three speaker placement for space savings) to get at least the audio there with at least halfway decent speakers; then offer outputs for a sub and 2 or four back surrounds to be hooked up as an option with amplifier concealed close by.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Many of my installs come by from the fact they are entertained by my setups I show them first by both video and audio surround.
Then they DO select at least a 5.1 setup they can afford and probably expand to 7.1.
Listening IS believing and most big-box stores have room for only a large batch of hanging flat panels in bad lighting and even worse setups, so audio is, of course, ignored.
If ever the networks start at least offering Dolby Digital Plus, a codec designed with broadcast/cable/satellite in mind with its compression rates, maybe more emphasis on audio will take place.
Another thing for the manufacturers to consider is building the panel sets to offer side speakers and include a bottom center (or an all-bottom three speaker placement for space savings) to get at least the audio there with at least halfway decent speakers; then offer outputs for a sub and 2 or four back surrounds to be hooked up as an option with amplifier concealed close by.