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Selecting Rear Surrounds for 5.1 system

Hello

I would like to get some advice on selection of rear surround speakers for my 5.1 system.  I have repurposed my formal dining and living to an A/V room and it is

23 feet long and 12 feet wide and ceiling is 10 feet high.

I have B&W 702 S3 fronts with HTM72 center & Polk 12" sub with Marantz 7015 amp.  I've placed the chair 14 feet from front wall (12 feet from front speakers).  What type of rears would make sense.  I was thinking about Polk R700s - is that a silly idea.

Thank you

vajapey1113

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socalml528
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For my AV 5.2 (separate from my 2 channel system) I'm using a set of Bowers and Wilkens towers (683 S2s) center channel HTM6, surrounds (607s) and 2 subwoofers (ASW8s).

I think having the matched set of towers and center channel gives the same tonal quality to voice, music and action sounds.  The rears mostly play only ambient sounds in the 5.2 set up and I haven't noticed much difference if I switch them out with a non B&W option.

BTW the 607s are good enough to use in a bookshelf or bedroom set up as stand alone 2 channel set up.  So probably not taxing their capability much with 5.2 use.

AV amp is a Marantz 5.2  Model 1510

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