Choosing centre channel speaker

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Practically the center channel speaker must be the biggest or same as your l/r. if your L/R is three way then center channel must be three way.
Don't buy puny center channel because down the line you will be replacing. I'm telling from my experience.
 
hardcore_gamer99 said:
dali opticon 2 is 2 way what now?
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Centre channel Not necessary to be three way. I had a 3 way monitor audio tower matched by 2 way centre (its the default choice by the brand itself). No worries on that. But changing brand 'NO NO'
You wont know the difference until you hear it back to back but its a night and day.
Infact my next upgrade going to choose centre first and then the towers and then the AVR.
I have monitor audio silver centre now paired with polk r700 towers (earlier it was monitor audio silver towers). Though denon matched it for timbre the difference of listening polk r700 with its r400 centre is totally on a different level.
And if i pair the silver centee with silver tower its better than the mix and match.
If natural tonality of the speakers differ than the system(denon) matches all speaker to the least capable speaker- meaning if centre is weaker than tower than towers tonality is downgraded to match and vise versa.
But when listening to 2 channel their potential opens up.
So better stick to same brand and model too
 
I have Polk rti a9 as L/R and csia6 as center. They are from same series. But I'm not happy with center. Because it's small.. We all know that the most important speaker is the center only (ofcourse for movies only).

Now the problem is, there is no bigger center in that rti series. Then definitely I need to look in other brands. Therefore I'm looking for emotiva xc3.
 
LCR need to be in same model and brand is more of general statement. When you do EQ many filters are set in. I have used my emotiva c1+ speakers with Dali, Elac etc. It blends well. You can go for same brand if you can, but if you have something better, you can try.

I realised my post is very late. By now you would have bought something already. So what You ended up buying ?
 
Murlidher said:
LCR need to be in same model and brand is more of general statement. When you do EQ many filters are set in. I have used my emotiva c1+ speakers with Dali, Elac etc. It blends well. You can go for same brand if you can, but if you have something better, you can try.

I realised my post is very late. By now you would have bought something already. So what You ended up buying ?
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no lol did not buy yet. I am thinking of dali rubicon fronts+centre and shift dali opticon 2 mk2 as rear surround
 
Murlidher said:
LCR need to be in same model and brand is more of general statement. When you do EQ many filters are set in. I have used my emotiva c1+ speakers with Dali, Elac etc. It blends well. You can go for same brand if you can, but if you have something better, you can try.

I realised my post is very late. By now you would have bought something already. So what You ended up buying ?
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i can go with svs ultra evolution centre as well i am getting it at goo ddeal. Will it have issues with dali opticon 2 fronts?
 
Murlidher said:
LCR need to be in same model and brand is more of general statement. When you do EQ many filters are set in. I have used my emotiva c1+ speakers with Dali, Elac etc. It blends well. You can go for same brand if you can, but if you have something better, you can try.

I realised my post is very late. By now you would have bought something already. So what You ended up buying ?
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hello should i buy angle adustble centre speaker stand? dont want to cut my tv screen also i dont have much space so can i just buy av rack only and put the centre on top of it but i think it wont do angle adjust
 

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If you have a budget, go with Rubicon Centre. Rubicon Vokal is a little expensive, but it will be worth it. If you don't have that budget, then go with Opticon Vokal. My suggestion is that your LR is Opticon, so it's better to choose Opticon Center.
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hello i will be buy rubikore cinema soon but i cant match height with fronts as it will cut tv screen. total height of centre max can be 30 inches from floor but fronts are 42 inches. how will i treat localization? if it occurrs
 
hardcore_gamer99 said:
hello i will be buy rubikore cinema soon but i cant match height with fronts as it will cut tv screen. total height of centre max can be 30 inches from floor but fronts are 42 inches. how will i treat localization? if it occurrs
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Not necessary all the three in same height. No where it is possible to keep towers and center are in same height. Make a stand 2 shelves at 25 inch and keep center on first one.
 
Stand model. It cost me 8k. Iam keepinv my media players on top and on next one avr and last one power amp.
 

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