Has anyone ever tried two center channel speakers?

Redwoodgarden, excellent concept. I'll give it a shot.

thanks...I appreciate the tip.

mitch

I'd never heard of lobing before this thread. I've used the speaker in this orientation for over a year with very good results. I had an Infinity Kappa home theater center speaker, it is an excellent speaker for a conventional sized room, it was just too small for my room. I happened to have an extra pair of Kappa 7.1's in storage....pulled one out and plunked it down and 'voila'. Now I've got myself a serious full range center channel. Standing the speaker up vertically is not a consideration and out of the question. It is just too big and tall.

Thanks for the input. I did a search for lobing in the forums here and found a lot of good info, explanations and opinions about it.

Since I have the extra amp and speaker and a huge room, I'll give it a shot anyway and see what happens. If it doesn't fly, I'll go back to business as usual.

....thanks again guys, I love this forum.

Stacking won''t work because the speakers are too big and they are trapezoidal in shape. The trapezoidal shape when laid horizontally naturally points the drivers upwardard and outward. My screen goes all the way down to the floor and stacking the speakers would obscure part of the picture.

I've read several opinions on the effects of lobing, and like a lot of things here on the 'Gon, there's lots of disagreement on its effects and detriment to the overall sound of your system. Some seem to think the effect is minimal and nothing to worry about.

As for laying a speaker on its side and getting poor dispersion. I haven't had that problem....I get excellent dispersion. A lot of stuff in audio is theory, or it may be factual.....nonetheless, if it sounds good, all the theory and facts go right out the window.

It pretty much comes down to if I like the way the two center channel speaker sound.

I will connect them this weekend and let you know what I think. Ordinarily, I wouldn't even consider two center channels, but my room is out of the ordinary.