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Home Theater or stick with 2 channel?

Somebody just gave me a home theater system consisting of an Onkyo TX-SR803 AV Receiver and an Infinity TSS-1100 speaker system. Presently, I use my stereo speakers for TV and movies, but I'm thinking of setting up the home theater and moving my stereo to another room just for music.

Since I'm new to home theater, I'm not sure how it will affect people not in the ideal listening area. In my family room, there is a sofa along a side wall. With the stereo, the sound during movies isn't off that much there but I'm worried it will be with a surround system. Is being outside the "sweet spot" of a surround system more obvious than a 2 channel system? Thanks.

Lew
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vicdamone
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Incorporating my two channel system with HT I lost much of the two channel imaging I worked so hard to get right so I gave up in favor of separate systems.

There is still a sweet spot with HT but it's much more forgiving. I recently upgraded my receiver to a newer 7.1, HDMI 1.3 with the latest codes and room correction and the difference is amazing. My HT area is in an awkward corner and adjusting the simple distance and level settings never came close to what room correction has done.
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