Rear Fill vs Front Stage

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Unless the source material is encoded for surround, and very few are, anything else is just processed fake surround. I want to listen to music. I will never have a TV in view of the driver so there is no point to a theater setup in the car and I've never heard a Pro Logic (surround derived from two channels by a processor of some sort) setup, home or car, that sounded right. Music comes from a stereo signal, two channels, left and right. Live music venues are setup the same way. Big stacks left and right. The best home systems I've heard are the same way, left and right speakers only.

My opinion, unless you are going to go to the trouble of doing a full 5.1 system in the car and play source material encoded to take advantage of it, stick with stereo and focus you efforts on setting the front stage up right.

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

Rear fill can be executed properly, but I'd say less than 1% of cars even have the processing abilites to do it justice, and of those that do, many don't have the knowledge.

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

Rear fill can be executed properly, but I'd say less than 1% of cars even have the processing abilites to do it justice, and of those that do, many don't have the knowledge.

a tad bit ignorant.

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

dont people ever sit in your back seats?

no one I care about

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

if you've never heard a nice comp set then you'll depend on rear fill

once you've heard a nice comp set up front you won't like the way rear fill sounds this i promise

i have my comps upfront powered by an external amp, the rear fill is powered by my HU, when i turn the internal amp off on the HU you can't hear any audible difference upfront, just the passengers in the rear, thats why i only turn the internal amp on when the rear passengers tell me to turn it up

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

if you've never heard a nice comp set then you'll depend on rear fill
once you've heard a nice comp set up front you won't like the way rear fill sounds this i promise

i have my comps upfront powered by an external amp, the rear fill is powered by my HU, when i turn the internal amp off on the HU you can't hear any audible difference upfront, just the passengers in the rear, thats why i only turn the internal amp on when the rear passengers tell me to turn it up

when you shut off the rears in my truck there is only a decrease in volume, because the time delay is dead on.