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If we are to believe that the center channel is the most important because it gets dialog, in an HT setup why then would we have mondo LR eg. M80 and a small center? If a small speaker works best for a center, wouldn't that mean that large LR are pointless?

Just for argument's sake, if dialog is the primary reason for the center, it doesn't need to be huge. Dialog, while covering a surprising frequency range still does not cover the same frequency range as music (which, unless I'm mistaken, features slightly in certain movies.)

Fair enough -- I'm just curious here, not being argumentative. I'm still mulling options while I wait for spousal approval on my purchase: I've read enough disappointing reports on the VP150 that I'm thinking about trying a vertical M22 center (M60 is too tall). I got to thinking, though -- a number of people here have praised the M2 (but not the M3 for some reason) as a center, so how might it work having a dual M2 center, with the two stacked vertically?

So the idea is that the LR speakers do well to be bigger for movies because they play the score?

Heck, I'm just making this up. I believe at the time I was reacting to a practice among certain members to use 3 speakers as a center (Jason's famous picture), which I may also have been misinterpreting.

Anthony, as I said a couple months ago on your center channel thread, a vertical M22 is fine for a center speaker. If you mean actually stacking an M2 directly on top of another one, that's an interesting experiment, but I don't see any advantage over simply a slightly less expensive single M22.

Well, it'd be 3 drivers vs 4 drivers, no? I got to wondering if the M40 might have been short enough and engaged in some time travel to see how high it was (33.5" BTW). Found a photo of Aldo Nova with a stack of Axioms and read about the tiny QS2.