I have been working on a theater room in my basement, and posted a while back asking you guys about the possible use of my paragon and/or my 3-way C40's (15" woofers, 070 tweeters, etc) in the room:
http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/s...ad.php?t=17809
I've decided not to use the paragon in the theater room, and instead enjoy it in another part of the house.
I'm hooking up a McIntosh MHT200 A/V Receiver to drive the theater room speakers (& the paragon outside the room).
In order to save some money initially, I would like to try using the C40's as my front L & R main speakers. If they work well, then I will save from getting new speakers + be able to enjoy my C40's. My issue is the center channel speaker. The "experts" (speaker salesmen) are telling me that I can't do this - that I NEED to use a "matched set" of three up front. I am having a hard time believeing that to be true - is it?
I would like to purchase a JBL Studio Series LC2 (http://www.jbl.com/home/products/pro...at=BFS&ser=SLS) for my center channel speaker & an L8400P sub-woofer. And if for some reason the C40's don't work out, I can purchase a pair of L890's to match.
Will it sound right? The big question is how do I know if it doesn't?