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<blockquote data-quote="Wingman0121" data-source="post: 7356925" data-attributes="member: 620554">To be honest the Honda Civic doesn&#039;t have enough interior room for a 5.1 setup to sound like a 5.1 setup, plus the people sitting in the back will hear a lot more surround channel information than the people in the front so the soundstage &amp;amp; listening position is all wrong... imagine setting up a home theater system in your bathroom with the toilet as the sweet spot and you&#039;ll get an idea.The automotive environment is terrible for surround sound and you can only set up time delay and individual volume level trim for a sweet spot for one person and not everyone in the car, so while you may get good surround effect in the driver&#039;s seat everyone else won&#039;t. My old boss has an Audison DSP processor and he showed me the difference between setting up time delay for his seat versus the passenger seat, his surround sound sounded like a normal 2 channel setup when he had the listening position set to his seat and not mine.What I&#039;m trying to say is surround sound in a car is more or less pointless because even the best car theater system can&#039;t come anywhere close to a proper home theater system in a house in terms of surround sound effect, correct imaging and clarity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wingman0121, post: 7356925, member: 620554"] To be honest the Honda Civic doesn't have enough interior room for a 5.1 setup to sound like a 5.1 setup, plus the people sitting in the back will hear a lot more surround channel information than the people in the front so the soundstage & listening position is all wrong... imagine setting up a home theater system in your bathroom with the toilet as the sweet spot and you'll get an idea. The automotive environment is terrible for surround sound and you can only set up time delay and individual volume level trim for a sweet spot for one person and not everyone in the car, so while you may get good surround effect in the driver's seat everyone else won't. My old boss has an Audison DSP processor and he showed me the difference between setting up time delay for his seat versus the passenger seat, his surround sound sounded like a normal 2 channel setup when he had the listening position set to his seat and not mine. What I'm trying to say is surround sound in a car is more or less pointless because even the best car theater system can't come anywhere close to a proper home theater system in a house in terms of surround sound effect, correct imaging and clarity. [/QUOTE]

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