Center channel/L/R matching ?

[Travis]

Originally Posted by aramis109

Check out BD's sticky on the subject of horizontal centers- it's some interesting reading.

Thanks for the info.

Observation I had recently:

Moved to a new house; the dog is not happy, so the dog tore off the grille and tore out the left driver of my ceter speaker. I sent it to Taipei to replace missing driver, cost 4,000NT$=125US$

System note: B&W LCR60, not the bigest B&W center; matches 4 DM600-S3 I have.

While it was gone, for a week, I watched movies; set the AVR to no center.

Center came back and I felt the spoken track moved from the entire front to the narrowest portion of the middle of my room, under the TV. The sound is lower and not as full (sorry audiophiles maybe not the right terms). I know the new driver needs to break in, but I would think 3 speakers up front are better than 2, fuller sound.

Hard question to answer: What % of the sound is the center responsible for? It almost seems like the fronts aren't doing as much as they could or should, since the center came home. Can the center share some of its duties with the fronts?