Horizontal Center Channel Speakers and Why They Should Be Avoided

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Originally Posted by chriscmore

For the best sound, simply use three identical speakers across the front. Three BR-1s would suffice. If you had to rotate one BR-1 horizontally, it would still be better than adding another M to make it wider. Those mid/woofers should have plenty of headroom solo - the only thing having two of them would do is mess up your horizontal frequency consistency and muddy up the intelligibility.

If you're really vertically challenged you could do like KEF, Thiel, etc and do a coaxial, one-driver build. While some home audio full-range drivers get spendy and are sometimes exotic, I've heard great mini-monitors built from coaxial car speakers. You only need bass response to 80Hz, so you can make them very small/short and act like true point sources.

Cheers,
Chris

Thiel, Kef, ect - is way out of his budget. I didn't answer back because I'm still trying to figure this out. The comment "I want the center channel audio to come from the center of the TV" ... that will natrually happen in a properly tuned HT.

I agree with you... he needs to go ahead and use three BR-1. I'm going to attach a file so Z1ONLY can see what I'm suggesting (the BR-1s are small enough and the dialoge will come from the center of the screen.