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Thank you for your patience in answering these questions.
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The rear speaker does make sense to me. Although the sound from the different speakers will effect each other nonetheless(you don't need the exact same frequency for interference). But in a same way the sounds in 'the jungle' would effect each other so this would make up for natural 'jungle sound'.
It also makes sense a centre speaker would define the middle of the soundfield, or dialoges. However, in my experience, speakers recreate the soundfield of the recording rather than 'sound' themselves. In my setup voices tend to disappear behind the screen even when positioned away from the middle of the speakers. Maybe not exactly centred I feel a centre would do more worse(destroy the imaging of the fronts) than good. But I am no expert concerning centre speakers. Thanks for the insight.
I agree with those directors and find myself in that philosophy.
This is probably very obvious to everyone reading this stuff, but keep in mind surround sound movies are mixed in mixing studios with 5.1 monitors.
Another thing:
Like most surround sound systems, my speakers are all the same brand and all part of the same model line.
However, like most surround sound systems...............the speakers are not all the same:
The front left and right are full range, with (1) 8" woofer each,
The centre must be crossed over at 80 Hz (it is not full range) and it has two 5.25" woofers,
The rears use (1) 6.5" woofer each and must be crossed over at 80 Hz,
And the mid/tweeters are all slightly different.
So, in reality it is hard to create a truly coherent soundfield from 3 different speakers.
Here's director who really doesn't like surrund sound:
Apparently Woody Allen mixes all his movies into MONO. LOL!