mix audio speaker or common speaker

[Opips2]

I'm not sure about standand brand speaker or mix brand speaker for home theatre.

I know, this can't mix a subwoofer when you buy different a subwoofer.
must same identity subwoofer.


other brand audio speakers booksheft, surround and center.

What you would like mix or common brand speaker for home theatre?

[Johnny Vinyl]

I'm not sure what you mean by MIX or COMMON brand speakers?

If you're asking whether or not you should or could mix different speaker brands in your 5.1 set-up, the answer is both yes and no.

Personally I would NOT MIX speaker brands in a set-up.
You certainly can mix Floorstanders and Bookshelfs, which is what the majority of people do. Or you could go with all Floorstanders (not realistic most times) or all Bookshelfs (great for limited space restrictions).

If you are going to mix speakers brands, make sure the FRONTS and CENTRE channels are from the same company. DO NOT MIX those. And then for the rears (which are less critical) buy something that suits your application or environment.

Has that answered your question?

John

[Galley]

Speakers should be tonally matched, so a common model (and band) is important.

[Hammie]

You want to make sure your three front speakers are all from the same vendor and series. You typically will hear the term "timbre-matched." This means that the speakers are all set the same with the same type of speakers.

Even mixing speakers from the same company can result in unpleasing results because the tweeters may be different. Worse is when you mix speakers from companies and everything is different between them.

Surround speakers can be more forgiving but I still recommend that you match them too.

Subwoofers don't matter as much, either. The only time you would want to match subwoofers are when you start having more than one sub in your system. Then you will want the two (or more) subs to be the same model.

[Opips2]

Originally Posted by John72953

I'm not sure what you mean by MIX or COMMON brand speakers?

If you're asking whether or not you should or could mix different speaker brands in your 5.1 set-up, the answer is both yes and no.

Personally I would NOT MIX speaker brands in a set-up.
You certainly can mix Floorstanders and Bookshelfs, which is what the majority of people do. Or you could go with all Floorstanders (not realistic most times) or all Bookshelfs (great for limited space restrictions).
If you are going to mix speakers brands, make sure the FRONTS and CENTRE channels are from the same company. DO NOT MIX those. And then for the rears (which are less critical) buy something that suits your application or environment.

Has that answered your question?

John

thanks,

I want to know an education about home theatre school. lol!!
you mean, front speaker and centre speaker are same brand company?

a surround speaker or more extra surround speakers are brand company different than front speaker and center speaker are other brand company?

[Opips2]

i give you for example.

i called,
mix brand company speakers.

for all surround speakers all stand and center speaker. not subwoofer.



front speakers.


a subwoofer



or

common brand speakers




or

[naturephoto1]

Originally Posted by John72953

I'm not sure what you mean by MIX or COMMON brand speakers?

If you're asking whether or not you should or could mix different speaker brands in your 5.1 set-up, the answer is both yes and no.

Personally I would NOT MIX speaker brands in a set-up.
You certainly can mix Floorstanders and Bookshelfs, which is what the majority of people do. Or you could go with all Floorstanders (not realistic most times) or all Bookshelfs (great for limited space restrictions).

If you are going to mix speakers brands, make sure the FRONTS and CENTRE channels are from the same company. DO NOT MIX those. And then for the rears (which are less critical) buy something that suits your application or environment.

Has that answered your question?

John

Generally, I would agree with you entirely. My set-up is a little bit of an exception to the rule however. In my case I have totally rebuilt (all drivers and crossovers changed) and upgraded twice mirror imaged Dahlquist DQ-10 cabinets for the front L & R. My rear channel surrounds are Dahlquist DQ-6CI bookshelf speakers. My center channel (Dahlquist was out of business before these were available) is a Nola LCR Reference speaker. For those unfamiliar, Carl Marchisotto used to be the designer of speakers for Dahlquist subsequent to the design of the DQ-10s. He continued the ideas of Jon Dahlquist in his later designs in the Dahlquist line and then the speakers that he has designed in his 2 companies Alon and presently Nola (Alon backwards).

All of my 5 speakers are open dipole or semi-dipole designs. The Nola LCR Reference uses an aluminum/magnesium dipole tweeter and a tri-laminate cone midrange driver operating as open baffle dipole drivers. The Dahlquist DQ-6CI uses a a soft dome dipole tweeter, and the upgraded Dahlquist DQ-10 cabinets use Dynaudio soft dome tweeters and midrange drivers and an open Peerless (semi-dipole) driver. Even though the tweeters, midrange and woofers of all of the speakers do not match they do blend quite well due to the similarity of their designs and overall sound of the products. The anchor to the system is the Epik Conquest subwoofer.

When I finally upgrade to a 7.1 system, I have to decide quite possibly which Nola speakers to purchase and where to use them and the Dahlquist DQ-10 cabinets.

The images that I am borrowing are from the Regnar Website for the Dahlquist speakers and from themusic.com for the Nola LCR Reference speaker that I purchased on Audiogon for one of the speakers used in a magazine review article.

Rich

[JJ]

The most important thing, from what I've gathered, is that the front three be matched, a la same company/same series so that sound progresses/flows smoothly across the front soundstage. Rears doesn't matter so much - and subwoofers - well, there are many speakers companies I'd never buy a subwoofer from.

[zweet77]

If you are building a set up you should stay same brand and series all the way around except for your sub.The most optimal set up would have the same speaker for each channel.but alas room size and budget usually don't allow for that.So since for movies your front 3 carry the majority of the work load it is most important to match those.Pick some fronts l/r and make sure your center is same brand series and has the same tweeter and same size woofers as your fronts.Not doing this can result in effects like voices that switch channels being louder or sounding different as they move from speaker to speaker.

[ozzman]

Look at my set up you can see iam missing a mirage center.

I totally agree with the the 3 front being the same. The center i have works well with my fronts(sometimes you can get lucky with other brands).

But i also know that it will sound better or at it's peak when i replace her with a MC-SI (mirage).

Iam in that boat where i just can't go into a store and buy the center i want.
This is going to be my year.

After christmas iam going to bust my ass to find this center and make sure i have the money already put away for it.Everytime i find this center iam broke (not this time)

I Also would like to have PSB for backsurround to go with my rears .
But thats just personal prefferance on my part to replace my Paradigms

Sorry ,i am rambling LOL
Yeah ,all three fronts speakers should be the same

[Big Daddy]

I don't disagree that the same line speakers from the same company work best. However, many of you are ignoring room acoustics. Many people use bipolar speakers for their surrounds. With bipolar speakers, you hear the room more than you hear the speakers. As an example, my right bipolar surround from Definitive Technology is closer to the wall than the left speaker. They are exactly the same distance from the main seating position. However, they sound completely different. My two identical rear channels are very close to the rear wall and are exactly the same distance from the main listening position, but they sound slighly different. Even my two front super towers with their built-in 15" subwoofers do not sound exctly the same because of their proximity to room boundaries, furniture, curtains, etc. To make matters worse, move your subwoofer around the room and you will hear different bass frequencies. Equalization helps a bit, but nothing is perfect.

My advice: Enjoy the movies and spend less time worrying about the equipment.

[ozzman]

Good advise Daddy,
Perfection is the biggest disease that i belive audio heads have.
But its fun trying to get there, you gotta admit

[Canada]

The .1 yes is the only speaker I would get that is not the same brand is the subwoofer because the sub deals with frequencies no other speaker usually handles.

As for your 5,6,or 7 speakers I would want the same brand and line.

good luck.

[ozzman]

Originally Posted by Canada

The .1 yes is the only speaker I would get that is not the same brand is the subwoofer because the sub deals with frequencies no other speaker usually handles.

As for your 5,6,or 7 speakers I would want the same brand and line.

good luck.

I do agree my friend,may I ask what line or brand is in your system. iam curious

[crazyBLUE]

I agree with staying with one brand of speaker for front 3 if not all 5 -7 or more ! that is the reason I went with my setup W/different brand sub !!

[Opips2]

Thanks,
great advice!

I make a mistake.

I'll buy same brand company for only front and center speaker.

What's LCR speak ??
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[JJ]

Originally Posted by Opips2

Thanks,
great advice!
I make a mistake.

I'll buy same brand company for only front and center speaker.

What's LCR speak ??

LCR= left, center, right

Edit by Big Daddy: Sorry, I screwed up your post.

Edit by JJ: Well stop editing it! Geez. lol.

Edit by Big Daddy: Instead of my own post, I edited yours.

Edit by JJ: I had answered first! You know, we can be redundant, we just reinforce the point to Opips.

Edit by Big Daddy: You should have more respect for your elders. You cannot click on SUBMIT until I have finished my post.

[Big Daddy]

Originally Posted by Opips2

Thanks,
great advice!

I make a mistake.

I'll buy same brand company for only front and center speaker.

What's LCR speak ??

LCR = Left, Center, Right. You can buy three for the front speakers.

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by Big Daddy

LCR = Left, Center, Right. You can buy three for the front speakers.

[Opips2]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

I'll buy LCR three for the front speakers.