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My front room is a bit of a weird shape, and i am thinking about getting a surround sound setup. I can place the front + centre speakers fine, but i am not going to be able to get the rear effect speakers actually behind me, there going to have to go more left and right of the room.

As a newer comer to dolby digital is the sound still going to blow me away???

Cheers

The chances are that yes it will `blow you away`. I was quite used to Dolby Pro-Logic but going to fully independent 5 channel audio was a real ear opener. I have 2 pieces of advice....

1) Make sure the front & centre loudspeakers are as close an acoustic match as possible. Buying the same speakers, or those from the same `range` will generally result in a reasonable match - it is quite disturbing to have a centre loudspeaker (which carries dialogue ie VOICES) sound different from the left & right pair!

2) The surround speakers don`t necessarily have to go behind you. Ideally they should be behind and 3 feet or so higher than you, but if you can`t make that fit, then just try to make them higher. You may want to drop the level of them a little (about 2dB) relative to the other speakers.

Take a look at the Dolby web-site www.dolby.com, this has loads of information about speaker locations (including how they set-up the mixing studios)