Ian: I am still agonizing over whether to buy a matching center for my JM Labs left and rights or go with the VP 150. Conventional wisdom says that you buy a sonically matched center or else risk not having a seamless sound. But I wonder whether one can hear this difference, especially when the cost difference between the VP150 and my matching center would be $250. In the real world do people actually hear the differences between the type of sound produced between speakers when they don't have comparisons to make between speakers in their living rooms?