I cannot emphasise enough how much the addition of a centre DSP, even one smaller than my L+R speakers, has increased my enjoyment of music and cinema.

I spent a few years with a G91 driving a pair of DSP 5200s and recently bought a pair of DSP 3100s to use as rears for movies and multi-channel music, thinking that a centre speaker would add little to a L+R pair that image as well as the 5200s. I was so wrong. When the 3100s arrived, I realised that the standard M5 and S5 cables that came with them would not allow me to run them as rears. I bought an additional M5 and set up one of the 3100s as a centre as a stopgap, planning to switch to front L+R 5200s and rear L+R 3100s as soon as the extra M5 arrived. I was so pleasantly surprised by the centre speaker, even one smaller than my L+R, that I left the 5200 L+R and 3100 C setup in place after I had the cabling to follow my original plan of 5100 L+R and 3100 rear L+R.

I subsequently bought a 5200C and now run DSP 5200s L+C+R and 3100s rear L+R. The switch from 3100 to 5200 as a centre resulted in a noticeable change, but I don't think that I'm exaggerating when I say that (for me) the addition of a centre DSP to a 2 channel system was a much more !WOW! moment than either the change from small centre to matched L+C+R or the change from 3 to 5 speakers. Although I have not had the opportunity to listen to DSP 33s, I will hazard a guess and say that adding one as a centre to your 5200s will impress you on both movies and music.

Of course in an ideal world you would use matched speakers all round, but if that isn't an option for the moment then I'm pretty confident you will be happy with centre and rears that are smaller than front L+R.

Hope this helps

Dom

MD600-->818-->very insecure DSP3100s