#Mahnificat dolby surround 5.1 upgrade#
#Mahnificat dolby surround 5.1 full#

Much as I loved my 340se, now the front soundstage is an pristine, immaculate match, not to mention real performance improvements: Astronomical, phenomenal detail on male deep voices, even better than 340s, even more clarity (Damn, can't those actors learn how not to mumble? What is it with 'serious' films and lots of mumbling?) and, a real boon to me with my huge projection screen, with the center so far away from the image of actors' mouths, even better sound dispertion. In HT, a LOT of information goes through the center (apparently 75% of a movie's sound is center channel)

#Mahnificat dolby surround 5.1 upgrade#

I am perhaps not alone in having debated whether a Sierra center was a worth-it upgrade of a 340se center, or whether just having the mains be Sierras was enough. The whole room is filled with clear, beautiful sound. I am sitting 30 feet from my Sierras, in a room with 14 foot ceilings, as I write this, and it sounds like the speakers are maybe 6 feet away, maybe less. You really have to be almost perpendicular to the speaker to hear the sound change perceptibly in quality. The Sierra sound follows you around, like Mona Lisa's eyes. The listening sweet spot, for stereo music, is huge. I already thought they sounded great, but with the insert pressed into its proper place, things climbed to a whole other dimension. I had some problems with the shipping of my Sierra pair, and the insert around the tweaters fell out. The result imaged, in fact BETTER than a near-top-of-the-line matched Klipch pair I had here before.

I even tried something freaky: I connected a 170se as the left channel and a Sierra on the right, and listened to some stereo music.

#Mahnificat dolby surround 5.1 full#

If you close your eyes you can't pick out individual speakers at all, you just picture a full band, layed out very precisely around the room, like a sonic hologram. On 5.1 mixes, it really is like sound is floating in front of you, around you, through you, creating a perfect, extremely detailed soundscape. I thought that a tall claim indeed, that is, until I heard 5 Ascend speakers working together. Dave has stated that Ascend speakers vary less from perfect neutrality than most brands of paired speakers vary from each other.