the center side and rear speakers should be as good as L and R main speakers
otherwise your not getting the most out of the money
choose a processor with stereo rear instead of mono.
most of these multichannel systems have mono rear
try a lexicon with phantom center to eliminate the center speaker and stereo
rear
this may actually sound better.

Steven Sullivan wrote in message news:o%Fac.48998$JO3.32093@attbi_s04...
Truestorys wrote:
It's OVER!

The Speakers a B&W 704
http://www.bwspeakers.com/index.cfm/...el/MODEL%20704

With the Sub Woofer thing ASW600.
With the Matching center Speaker HTM7
Which I must now comment on??. EVERYWHERE I went??. The UNIVERSAL
sales line was:
"Your Center Speaker has to be balanced with your left and right
Speakers."
Every single sales guy said this. I got sick of hearing it. I didn't
believe them for one instant! But in the end, I didn't' dare take the
chance that they were Right! I wanted to buy a cheap Center speaker.

But, what if I was Wrong???

Dump all this money into a system that sucks?

SO, the Sales Guys won that round. Like a fish, I took the bait and
was hooked!

If you accept that your front left and right speakers should be sonically
matched, why would you be skeptical of the idea
that another front speaker, firing at you from in between them, should
match them as well? Why would you want it to 'stand out' sonically?

The salesmen were right in this case. You shouldn't cheap out on
a center speaker, especially if you plan to use the system for
playing multichannel music.