I don't have room for the standalone style center.I’d either make room or do the phantom center thing. Nothing worse than a compromised center channel IME. Best of luck.
When is a mismatched center OK?
Hi all,
I'm going to go listen to some speakers in the next 30 days and need your advice. My goal is to improve my 2 channel experience but I have to be cognizant of HT also.... and my primary problem is as follows: For many of the speakers I like the center channel is freaking huge. (Looking at you Paradigm Persona!) I don't have room for the standalone style center. I could reconfigure my rack if needed but like the way mine sits today. I could shop down market a bit where the centers are more reasonably sized (Founders instead of Persona,) and likely still be pretty happy.
I recognize that ideally you don't want a mismatch, but.....What I'm wondering is if you stay within the same family (Example: Focal Sopra 2 with Aria center) , would your timbre match be solid enough to get by or would you create a potentially glaring mismatch?
Any first hand examples appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
I'm going to go listen to some speakers in the next 30 days and need your advice. My goal is to improve my 2 channel experience but I have to be cognizant of HT also.... and my primary problem is as follows: For many of the speakers I like the center channel is freaking huge. (Looking at you Paradigm Persona!) I don't have room for the standalone style center. I could reconfigure my rack if needed but like the way mine sits today. I could shop down market a bit where the centers are more reasonably sized (Founders instead of Persona,) and likely still be pretty happy.
I recognize that ideally you don't want a mismatch, but.....What I'm wondering is if you stay within the same family (Example: Focal Sopra 2 with Aria center) , would your timbre match be solid enough to get by or would you create a potentially glaring mismatch?
Any first hand examples appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric