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Martin Logan Center Channel-make sense??

Since I have always been more of a two-channel guy than HT guy, I am wondering, because the center channel is so important, would it make sense to have a Martin Logan center channel (like the Cinema i) if the other R/L and surround speakers are not ELS (traditional two-ways) of significant lesser quality (KEFs). I have a Sunfire sub and am thinking having a top notch center might really get the most bang where it counts. Would it be dramatically mismatched with the other speakers though?
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I used Thiel CS2.2 for fronts, an older Spendor center channel (funny square shaped thing..very very good speaker), and a pair of Spendor 2/3 for the rears. Amps were Levinson 27.5/fronts, bryston 2b/bridged/center, and Adcom 545 II for rears. An older parasound psp 1500 processor was used in conjunction with a Sony ESP9 dolby digital processor. The sound was simply great; lotta wires, though. I replaced all those amps with a Parasound HCA 1206; it was a move backwards from the Levinson and the other amps (well, not the Adcom but that was the rears). The speakers worked fine together once I got the relative volumes balanced.

Mixing planars and woofers is another story, though.
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