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Why not just get a M60, just turn the volume down.

I'm not sure how serious you folks are about this,but I'm seriously wondering why wouldn't this work and even be alot better. Ever since the post about why placing the M22's on their sides is a bad idea I was thinking then why are centres arranged horizontally. If its bad for good dispersion for a "normal" speaker then it should be just as bad for a centre. No? Everyone talks about how the VP150 is better, one reason being better of axis dispersion, achieved only by adding more tweeters and woofers...

I'm a newbie and maybe crazy but this was what I was wondering if I could do:

Why not have two M2's as a centre channel. I'd think this would be ideal. You'd have excellent dispersion and could move them closer togethor or further apart and toe them in or out to optimize the centre channel presence. I'd expect you'd want them pretty close since you probably would easily mess with the soundstage of the mains and generally want a point source for the centre, as I understand it. But you really would have flexibiliy in the placement and orientaion. At the vary least you could place them on their side like a centre speaker either wttw, wtwt,twwt orientation (much like the VP150). Talk about flexibility. Correct me if I'm wrong but connecting them to the same channel would not be a problem since two 8 ohm speakers should give an equivalent of 4 ohmn's, not a problem for any descent amp.

And when they're not in use as HT centre's you'd have a pair of one of Axiom's most applauded bookshelves for stereo elsewhere. This would also be alot cheaper.

Tell me I'm I nuts?

What if any problems would I have with this?

Why shouldn't I do this...?

Regards, Jane

As I'm sure everyone is sick of me saying, I'm planning on doing just such a thing. ('course, mainly because my wife doesn't like horizontal centers sitting on the TV), but when I checked with everyone about 6 months ago, the general concensus was that it would be fine.