May 13, 2010, 03:19 AM
I think Parsons' main contention is that the center channel is what ruins it. It draws focus away from the immersion factor and basically says that by having a properly set up and mix in Quad, the phantom center image is there anyway, feels natural and therefore unnecessary to have a single speaker producing the center image. He harped on it when he visited our school. I'm not sure I agree with him 100%, and I'm sure he'd argue the point much better than my memory of said discussion.