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[Anonymous]

Was reading a website and it said that having a mono rear stage is better than it being stereo..
it also said it is preferable to have your front stage in mono also...

how would this improve your sq??
any pointers on this?? It's got me stumped as to the logic on this.... this was said by a guy who made a website on an Australian server, so my guesses is he might even loom in here....
:/


any help would be greatly appriciated

[Maz]

it wont accurately reproduce how the origianl artist intended it to be. so its not good sound quality.

[Slain]

best example of this is runt he same song with stereo recording in mono and stereo setups, a good one is queen - bohemian rhapsody as it uses left and right channels quite a bit. I prefer stero any day and dont know what the article could be talking about.

[shiny_car]

to use rear speakers as effective 'ambience', there's been a few ideas tossed around. these include a mono channel and/or a bandpass frequency range of reproduction (eg: 200Hz~2kHz only).

in the end, it's up to you following your own experimenting as to what sounds best. most people in fact find running NO rears is best (which makes sense to me).

mono front? well, maybe they were referring to a centre channel to consolidate the soundstage?

[Cyberpunky]

I have this on my site
Rear Speakers (except subwoofers) should be band passed from at least 400Hz (ideally 1500Hz) to 7000hz and ideally, be in mono. They or it (one rear centre speaker in mono instead of the traditional pair, can help improve stage height up front) should also be low powered

I also suggest not using rears at all, but cant beleive some one would suggest a mono front stage, as for one, it wouldnt be a stage, it would just be front speakers, as calliung it a stage suggests some width and perceived imaging cues. A mono front set up would be as good as having a single speaker, centre mounted, and could not by any means considered a stage.

Anyway a rear (centre) mono can, in some cars, have less of a degrading effect on a stereo front stage, than the regular full bandwidth stereo rears, many ppl use for rear fill. It may not be the case in your car, but as I gave up on trying to get rear fill to work while not interfering with front stage(after trying all possibilities), it may be possible to do without degrading front stage. I just couldnt get the results I wanted and so dont use rears in my car.

peace
Cyberpunky

[Anonymous]

How do i setup the rear stage as mono?
im running my v power 4 channel off my rear channel of my set of 3 pre-outs

they are to alpine splits...
so how do i do it?

[Tommyk]

Easiest way would be to bridge your two channels off the vpower, and run the splits in either 8ohm or 2ohm mono.

[T-Bro]

actually, most car sound systems may as well be mono

with factory speaker locations, or 4-speaker systems, the listener rarely gets 'the stereo effect' anyway, only hearing the speakers (channel) closest to them. this is even worse than mono, and only presents you with half the information on the disc.

for 'wallpaper' or non-critical systems that are usually 4-speaker and use factory speaker locations, the effect is similar to the sound systems provided in office elevators, your aim is simply to fill the small space with sound, with little regard to staging or stereo imaging - hence the use of mono speakers in elevators, buses and other 'non-critical' environments.

just a different perspective