Hello NeverHappy,

Nice to hear that they are still outperforming as a center channel option. M50s all the way around would be what crackpots like us would consider 'ideal', to have the same speaker for all 5 channels. Not sure how you would arrange the center tower speaker though, too big to put ontop of the TV, and the two M3's have the same woofer complement as one M50, and an extra tweeter to boot. The sonic reinforcement of the second M3 should give the same output of one M50 together.

Here is another experiment, put 2 M3's on one side in stereo and one M50 on the other side...you will have to adjust for the different ohms with a channel boost to the 4 ohm side to compensate. Then see if the 2 M3's sound the same as one M50. 2 M3's should output 6db's more than one M3 alone. This experiment will tell you if you really need an M50 at center, or if the M3's do the job as good or better, since they have one extra tweeter.

Later,

TonyM