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"GRL" wrote:

Simple solution. Put another Titan as your center channel. That is the only
way to really "voice" the speakers alike. The very wide baffle board of any
dedicated center-channel speaker screws up the imaging. It'll also save you
a lot of money.

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- GRL

I'd agree. But the right reason is not the wide baffle but the awful horizontal
radiation pattern of a horizontally arrayed loudspeaker.

When drivers are located near each other and operating in different frequency
ranges there will be interference patterns generated near the crossover
frequency. When the drivers are vertically arrayed these patterns show in the
vertical directivity. When the drivers are horizontally arrayed they are then
delivered directly into the off-axis listening area.

For the same reason laying a Titan on its side as a center doesn't work well
either.