Moth3r said:
This is incorrect as well. The centre speaker is the most important speaker in a 5.1 set-up - it accounts for 50% of the soundtrack, as well as nearly all dialogue. It would not make sense to have the centre lesser specified than the front L & R speakers.
Fair enough, yet it's pretty typical to see people's set-ups sporting a crappy plastic center from a theater-in-a-box, flanked by enormous wood-housed three-way towers.