Good sounding, small center speaker


I'm considering the Gallo or Orb speakers for a home theater speaker system, but I'm concerned that especially dialogue will sound a bit light or thin coming from such small speakers. Anyone have experience with either of these in an HT setup, and if so how do they do as center channels for movies. Can they do a credible job with movie dialogue, and how do they compare to larger center speakers you've heard?

As an alternative I'm thinking about avoiding the center speaker altogether and just running something like 4 Maggie MMGWs and using a phantom center and adding a HSU STF-2 or VTF-2 sub.

Any thoughts would be helpful, but I'm really looking for a small footprint speaker that can do a great job with movie dialogue so I don't feel like I'm hearing a "small" speaker. Thanks all.
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Mirage Omnisat v2 or Nanosat, or the center channel version of either. They're all very small and omnipolar, which means you get wide coverage from a very small speaker. Center channel clarity does NOT suffer, however. Their midrange is exemplary, the synthetic enclosures with non-parallel lines avoid boxy resonances, and the Omnisats are linear down to 70 Hz for an easy and safe handoff to the sub. Power handling of 150-175 watts, too.

Check 'em out here.