Rear Surrounds...
sloggy420 -- Sun, 09/03/2006 - 12:08
Speaker companies have "matched" Front R/L speakers, center chanls, and the different Rear R/L surrounds. I get that. Is it bad to use 4 fronts as your front and rear R/L channels? Or to use a pair of speakers that are designed as fronts in the rear? I am thinking about Paradigm Atoms as my rears and Titans as my fronts.
There's nothing at all wrong with using the same speakers in L/R front and L/R surround applications. In fact, I think there's much to be said for the idea in terms of having evenness of voicing throughout the sysem
I can think of a number of systems that are configured in that way.
Examples: The KEF KHT 9000 ACE and 6000 ACE systems, both of which are based on five identical* speakers, plus a sub. Both systems sound very well-balanced and do fine job with surround sound imaging.
* Identical in all respects save for their stands and/or wall-mount brackets, where the center channel speakers are designed to be positioned horizontally.
Best,
Chris Martens
TPV/TAS
Chris Martens
Editor, Playback
playback.avguide.com
Along with voice matching, which is the strongest argument for using identical speakers front and rear, another important consideration when choosing rear-channel speakers is dynamic capability. Some will scrimp on the rear speakers in the mistaken notion that they just add ambient information. But many film soundtracks and surround music discs require rear speakers of equally high quality—ones that will not only sound natural but that can also match the front speakers in frequency response, voice, and dynamic response.
I plan on using 4 paradigm atoms in a 15' x 12' room w/ the matching center channel speaker and I am going to decide on a sub. I have not tested any yet but I just closed on my house Today! So I can actually buy all the toys I've benn looking at
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