That's the only time I use it. .for music.

It seems to amplify the bass in the front speakers.

MJM

I think it is also good when you have stereo sound and not 5.1 coming from the program you are watching. It might be just my feeling though...

I use speaker 4 in addition both for music and regular TV. Sometimes in situations where you don't want to turn up sound level too much, the "fullness" of sound with speaker 4 helps...

It is nice for a small gathering... eliminates some of the directionality, leaving an almost muzak-like background.

So if i may ask....if some of you are watching a normal stereo TV program and you don;t use Speaker 4, what do you use?

Speaker 3 or 5? Because 5 i think is a mess (almost no sound from rears).

I often use speaker 2. I find it a much fuller sound than 3 and spkr 3 doesn't give that much of a boost to the centre channel. I use spkr 4 for sports program as it gives an impression of the crowd in the stadium.

beoair wrote:

 I use spkr 4 for sports program as it gives an impression of the crowd in the stadium.

I totally agree.... !!!  😎

Thanks for the replies. Good to hear your thoughts.

Does anyone find themselves altering the individual speaker sound levels on a regular basis? I find that on some programmes and films, the music is deafening but the speech is very quiet so I have to adjust the front two speakers to a lower setting, and then other programmes vary. Maybe it is just how sound is originally recorded for each programme, I don't know.

Compostela wrote:

Thanks for the replies. Good to hear your thoughts.

Does anyone find themselves altering the individual speaker sound levels on a regular basis? I find that on some programmes and films, the music is deafening but the speech is very quiet so I have to adjust the front two speakers to a lower setting, and then other programmes vary. Maybe it is just how sound is originally recorded for each programme, I don't know.

I used to.  I think it all started with BBC Planet earth.  Beautiful sound mixing but the center speaker narration always seemed extremely weak so I thought something might be wrong with my levels.  Later I ended up adjusting them the other way when I discovered that lowering Left and Right seemed to boost bass in the center.  At this time I had a BS3 with BL2, BL3s and BL7.4 center.

I've recently switched to a BL10 for center and for some reason that seemed to balance the system alot more.  I know it's virtually identical to the 7.4 so the only thing I can attribute it to is the programming on the BS3 with that speaker.