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Hey guys, center channel or some bookshelf speakers?

Surrealistic

Surrealistic

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Finally decided to start some sort of home theater in my bedroom. Will upgrade as time goes by. I've been looking at the Infinity Primus line and it seems really well reviewed. Just wondering what I should start with, this center channel or these bookshelf speakers? Also, one last thing. Don't know exactly how bad this will be, but I will be hooking these up to my old Marantz 2220b. It's the only receiver I have on hand, will it sound atrocious? Will it work at all? Thanks for all the help in advance.
 
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A true center channel speaker can be handy if you plan to place it in the cabinet or close to the electronics. A good one will have extra EMI shielding to prevent interference. Granted, this was more of a problem with older video systems ... lot would depend on what you've got.

You can drive it with most anything. Thing is, what are you going to drive into it? I use a Bose video monitor speaker on my OPPO SACD using one channel of a Carver Cube. I've also driven it with my Sansui quad tapping the L+R off the front amps.
 
I use a pair of Yamaha NS-A838, 12-inch 3-ways for the important center channel. I have a monster old AV receiver, the THX-ultra2 badged Onkyo TX-DS989, a very conservative 130 watts RMS for each of its seven channels.
Good as those watts are, I use the center pre-out to a Carver ZR1600 300 wpc power amp to drive the NS-A838s.
I have the TV setting on top of the pair of NS-A838s. Voices are well situated in the center.
Next up will be to bring out the JBL L100s for use as the front L/R ("main") speakers. The grills need something to cover them with, so I've not been in a hurry to get them out from a big stack of stuff in the garage. Besides, the BIC America RtR-123s do perform and sound quite good.
I do listen to music on this system. I have a superb Denon DCD-860 for playing CDs. I am playing around with the Onkyo's DSP, and right now am using a digital coax cable as the interconnect, and have selected "all channel stereo" when playing music CDs. Kinda cool.

KP
 
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