Need help picking speakers

logenl7

I used the DXI350's.. ended up taking them out tho.. The fill wasn't worth the disturbance to the soundstage. I assumed going into my build that Big's view on soundstage and not using rear speakers was crazy, but I have to admit that he's 100% right. I found zero benefit to having them Anyway, I've still got my DXI400's and DXI350's for the time being. They're boxed up and ready to ship back to Crutchfield.

RonRizz

Well known by anyone that is serious about the presence of their soundstage. Rear fill speakers went out of vogue many years ago with the audiophile crowd. Late 80's and early 90's at SQ competitions, IASCA actually used to score you on rear fill, but did away with that.
It's really common sense. You are trying to reproduce the music to mimic a concert, or live recording where you are sitting in front of center stage. How many concerts have you been to that had speakers behind the listener?? There are those that like to have that rear fill, however, and to each their own, I say. I still have customers that MUST have speakers in the rear, and I gladly oblige them, and do not try to persuade them otherwise.
I kind of relate it to this funny story.....My Fiancee ate canned corn all her life, believe it or not, Never ate fresh corn. The first time I made corn on the cob for her, she hated it. It just didn't taste "right" to her. To this day, she still prefers the canned corn She grew up eating it that way, so to her corn is supposed to taste like that. We now have to make 2 different types of corn with dinner!!!!

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