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Anyone using Powered center/surround speaker??

Getting ready to set up my home theater system. I alrady got the Anthem AVM-20 for the pre/pro. Right now I am looking into center and surround speakers. Unfortunately, there is no matched surround speakers for my front speakers. So I am thinking about powered center/surround and drive them directly from the Anthem AVM-20's XLR output.

Any suggestions?

The first possibilites are:
1) Paradigm powered speakers (do they still make them?)
2) Dynaudio BM-5A
3) pro speakers like Tannoy or ???

Budget: < $2000 for center and 2 surround speakers.
Room size: a medium size family room
50% TV/ 30% music/ 20% movies.
Source: DVD, Sat dish, and LPs
Front L+R speakers: Avalon Radian HC
Front L+R Amp: Aragon 8008 BB mk2.
ejliu

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ejliu OP
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My hope was that I can keep the setup for a good 3-4 years. I am sure there will probably be 8-10 channels by then. :-)

I forgot to mention that I do have a 5-channel Nakamichi amp at 100W/ch x 5 already. It's more of a case of not wanting to run very long speaker cables. From earlier experiment, I found running long balanced interconnects is better than running long speaker cables.
ejliu OP
109 posts
 
How much are they?

Also, how do you mount them for surround speakers? ATC 10 have very deep cabinet according to the web sites. I think my wife woould not let me have something that stick 2.5 ft into the room.
ejliu OP
109 posts
 
Thanks for the suggestion on the Genelec. I will definitely check it out. I was also considering Tannoy as well. Perhaps I need to go to a pro shop and look around.

Avalon no longer makes Avalon Radian HC speakers and their current center speaker solution is closer sounding to the newer speakers than Radian HC. The only choise is Avalon Monitor speaker, but they only come in a pair and they are also fairly large.
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