Identical speakers across the front

[prerich]

I have three Snell E-II speakers across the front array. My question is, have any of you tried using three identical speakers across the front instead of the more traditional horizontal oriented center channel? Ergonomicly it can be cumbersome but sonicly, the results are uncanny! My oldest son came over the other night and listened to my system with some of his music. He had recently bought my old receiver from me to use as his prepro (same thing that I was doing). He loves the receiver and wanted to hear my RX-V663 in 7 channel stereo. When he heard it he was like "Dad it's like one huge sonic image you can't tell that there's a center channe because they all sound exactly alike" I told him thats the best timbre matching that you could ever achieve.

He's heard different incarnations of my system before but he stated that he's never heard it this smooth (but still dynamic). My son doesn't realize but he said the same thing while watching a movie when I went to three Infinity RS-6B (Kappa) speakerrs across the front (I use these as spares incase the Snells go down). There is a difference between the horizontal oriented center and using an identical speaker oriented vertically. That's when my system's sonic character changed. Once you go vertical - you never want to go back again.