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Recommendation: Complete my studio monitor system with a center channel

Hello,

I have turned my garage into a mancave. Carpeted, couches, basically turned it into a 2nd living room.

This is what my current setup is:

Outlaw 976
Yamaha HS8 Fronts
Yamaha HS5 Rears

Big fan of Yamaha Natural Sound, speakers, amps, etc.

I mainly listen to music, however I will be adding a TV for football and the occasional movie night.

I am using balanced XLR connections for the speakers.

I need a good center channel speaker recommendation to go 5.1 and possibly 7.1 in the future.

I was thinking of using a Klipsch Icon VS-14 speaker that I have, it is a budget curved rounded center channel, however considering that I have high quality Yamaha monitors, I figured it may be a good idea to get something to match quality wise. 

What do you guys recommend? I would prefer something with a balanced connection that is monitor quality, and I really love that Yamaha Natural Sound.

It is acceptable to advise me to not go with a center channel, just use the Klipsch, or maybe recommend something out of left field. I have nowhere near the years of audiophile experience as you guys, so let me know what you think?

I really appreciate your guidance. :)
mrdoug1

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I have always tried to keep the front three (Left, Right and Center) voiced the same on a surround set up as they all work together to create the front sound stage. Going with a mismatch center compared to the right and left front speakers seems like a bad idea to me.

If Yamaha doesn't make a matching center for those studio monitors, which I assume is the case, you have a couple options. You can look for a Yamaha center that uses the same or similar drivers to try and get a similar sound out of the front 3. The other option is to get a single HS8 studio monitor to use as a center so the front three are all identical. This is probably the option I would personally shoot for.

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