Originally posted by Pienstars:
Depends on room size. I think what dave is getting at is that most people here don't have rooms sufficient in size to utilize 6.1 or 7.1 I use 5.1 because I have a small room for my theater and it sounds great. If I had 6.1, the rear center would be right on top of me and would be too cluttered.



Exactly. It requires a pretty damn big room to start justifying the extra channels and marketing is certainly driving the move to more channels.

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