Phantom center in 2.0 with Ultra?

[khuntim]

I have very small space here and no room for receiver and center channel.

Using the optical out from Sony 90XL into DAC--> powered speakers.

In general, do you think the ultra will do a good job with a phantom center channel?

Right now marginal..

Tidal also!

 

[Musician]

The new firmware allows you to use your belowed 2 channel loudspeakers in a 4.0 surround setup, just adding two surround speakers.

As Tooles research has found, using two front speakers and integrating the 5.1 track sending the center channel to the fronts, needs some stereo compensation to sound as you had a ”real ” center channel.

Its like the inversion of the lowest picture in the graph.

If you know your speakers are measuring flat in the 800-3000 kHz region, You can do this with PEQ using the ultra as master or the WiiM amp pro.

if you sit in sweetspot, the 4.0 sound will be slightly clearer with this PEQ trick.

 

[Musician]

The frequency correction for my front speakers looks like this for 4.0 surround :



Frequency : 1,7 kHz
Gain : +2.5 dB
Q: 3