Originally Posted by JerryL
I can kind of understand that with the horizontal center. Its just all the combing it does to the sound waves. What matters most is how it sounds in your room- if its working as a 2.0 system, I think thats great. The 8000s are tremendous speakers.

best regards,
Jerry

Yeah, the 5500HC and new 7200HC shouldn't suffer from combing though as they each have only a single mid driver which crosses over quite low to the flanking pair of bass drivers. That being said, the broad cabinet face of the big horizontal centers would still result in a very different in-room power response and dispersion pattern than your mains. This subject has been a real dilemma for me too. I really want to replace my DSP5kHC with a more capable center. A 5k5HC would permit me to continue using the 110" Vutec Silverstar PJ screen I love. The sonically ideal matched vertically oriented DSP6kC would require a smaller motorized AT screen hung well into the room.

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