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sheesh, I am starting to get scared that my RX-V659 will not be able to drive my whole system without a separate for the centre channels...

It very well might work but I would err on the side of caution and go for more power. To tell ya the truth I think there is something either wrong with the center or a setup malfunction.

Drew, this seems to be getting tangled-up with a discussion of amplification, rather than trying another center channel option. If you did try two center speakers there's no general problem with doing so and no different amplifier would be necessarily required; an impedance problem shouldn't be assumed.

The simplest thing to try first, to see if there's a problem with the VP150 itself, is to just set no center on the 2600, so that your mains handle the center in "phantom" mode. Not much more complicated is to put one M2 at the center.

The only difference I sense in the sound is that the M60's sound better and bigger. The M2 sounds nearly as good the VP150 at the center although the soundstage seems very narrow.

If I were to add a second center below the TV, it would be around 8 inches in front of the 150 on top of the TV. Would the distance option in the reciever remedy this or are there other precautions I should take when integrating it?