Favorite Center??

The Dali Suite C 0.8. This can be had for around 500.00 and its sound is clean, articulate and full. Plus it looks good.

If you're an audiophile or in the least bit picky, you're asking a question that you should not be asking. If you don't match the center speaker with your mains, you're going to run into the very good chance of a bad situation.

Think about a vehicle panning from the left through the center and on to the right. If that doesn't make you realize the potential of the problem, it doesn't matter what speaker you use. In fact, you can just use your TV speakers.

I've heard great sounds from the Thiel PowerPoint and the Martin-Logan Cinema (baby brother to the Theater). The latter, unfortunately, may be out of your price point.

In both cases, all other speakers in the system are of the same design, from the same company, and are carefully matched to provide a very coherent, seamless sound.

With the Thiel PowerPoints in particuler, ALL five speakers are identical! They can be wall-, ceiling, or floor mounted. They literally disappear to give a great illusion of live experience. They also produce surprisingly loud sound despite their diminutive size. A truly interesting design concept.

there are plenty of non-matched centers in theaters out there, as long as you cant tell a huge gap in sound, go for it, movies are just entertainment IMHO, so I dont care as much as I do for 2 channel, plus SACD DVD-A doesnt float my boat if not 2 channel, I heard a boston Acoustic 3 way center that uses 6X9 woofers and I am telling you it is a really nice center for the money, I was also curious to hear the Definitive Tech with the powered woofers.

Thanks all.. Guess I ned to rephrase.. I currently have an all Axiom speaker system With the VP-150 Center, M22i's Front, and QS8's as all surrounds. With that is a VMPS sub. I wanted to upgrade to a great 2 Channel system for my Music.. Dave Matthews Band, Tori Amos, Norah Jones, Hope Sandoval, Mary Fahl ect... However, because of others and myself, it gets used for Movies more then music. Only when I am home alone can I enjoy my music.

Needless to say in my search, I was looking into Green, Mountain, Totem, Von, ect... But I realized I never see anything about a center for these. So what I need is an upgrade from Axiom but allowing the 30% Music, 70% Movie use. I use Rotel Power, and have a Usher CD-100 CD Player. DH Lab wire, and upgraded power chords are the rest of my stereo.