Center channel match for vintage 10Bs?

AndyANYC

New to the club and looking for advice on a center channel speaker.

What I have:
2 10B Monitors (front pair)
2 5jr (rear pair)
PSW505 sub
Sony STR-DE895 AVR

I'm considering a CS10 -- would that be a good fit?

Second question: For more casual listening in my kitchen/breakfast room, I'm thinking about picking up a pair of Monitor 30s. I've heard them, and they're nice if a bit light on the low end. Good choice?

Thanks!

Andy

mantis

AndyANYC wrote: »

New to the club and looking for advice on a center channel speaker.

What I have:
2 10B Monitors (front pair)
2 5jr (rear pair)
PSW505 sub
Sony STR-DE895 AVR

I'm considering a CS10 -- would that be a good fit?

Second question: For more casual listening in my kitchen/breakfast room, I'm thinking about picking up a pair of Monitor 30s. I've heard them, and they're nice if a bit light on the low end. Good choice?

Thanks!

Andy

Welcome to the club,
Nothing really matches those 10's but I would use the CS350 if you can find one. You probably are going to have to settle on what older model you can find.

ben62670

I would use one of your 5jrs, and look for another set of 5's or 7's for rears. Welcome to Club Polk.
Ben

falconcry72

Use another 10B as the center. I'm running one as my center right now in a vintage Polk theatre rig, and it's AWESOME. Nice detailed vocals, and it handles all the explosions that demanding movie soundtracks can throw at it very nicely, plus it blends in perfectly.

I think the Monitor 10 my be the ultimate center for a vintage Polk 5 channel rig. Small enough to fit into many setups, yet large enough to get nice and low.

The only down side is having to look at the other one not being used:p

Edit: Ben's advice is good, too. I'd keep it in the Monitor, SDA, RTA family for sure.

tx_polkhead

I am using a Monitor 7 as a center channel speaker. My R&L mains are RTA 12C's and the set up with the Pioneer Elite AVR went well, I had to bump the center up just a bit to match the volume of the mains. It's very doable, I would recommend a vintage speaker will more closely match the voice of the vintage mains.

StantonZ

I use a PAIR of Monitor 4's. Even though they have peerless tweets and the 10B's don't, it still sounds great (more dialog on the center anyway). The pattern in this thread is obvious: people are using sets of speakers from the same time/vintage (4/5/7/10). I can't believe these things are still kicking after 25 years (and no mods)!

Big Dawg

ben62670 wrote: »

I would use one of your 5jrs, and look for another set of 5's or 7's for rears. Welcome to Club Polk.
Ben

I am planning to use 2 5Jr+s as a center channel eventually. I was thinking of laying them on their sides tweeter to tweeter. Anything wrong with that?

BTW, the fronts would be my SDA 2Bs, and rears would be monitor 7s...

DaveHo

Yes, you will get very bad lobing. Using more than one speaker is almost always a bad idea.

-Dave

falconcry72

DaveHo wrote: »

Yes, you will get very bad lobing. Using more than one speaker is almost always a bad idea.

-Dave

plus those 5jr's, as with all these old polks, and most other speakers, were not designed to be layed on their side. It messes with the alignment and sounds bad.

Big Dawg- with sda2b's as fronts and 7's as rears, go with a 10 as the center. You will be very impressed. The center channel gets a huge percentage of information; it would be a shame for the center to be the weakest link (as it would be if you went with a 5 or 5's). The Monitor 10 is a great center.

falconcry72

falconcry72 wrote: »

plus those 5jr's, as with all these old polks, and most other speakers, were not designed to be layed on their side. It messes with the alignment and sounds bad.

Big Dawg- with sda2b's as fronts and 7's as rears, go with a 10 as the center. You will be very impressed. The center channel gets a huge percentage of information; it would be a shame for the center to be the weakest link (as it would be if you went with a 5 or 5's). The Monitor 10 is a great center.

Sorry I just saw that your 2B's have been TL'ed. That changes things. Do the 7C's have sl3000's? The 5jr+'s?

bsoko2

For my 2.3TL's I use a Aperion Intimus 6C for the center channel. It does an excellent job of integrating with the SDA's. I had an installer tell me that this center is one of the best that he has heard for the price. Then again, what does he know? Or me for that matter!

Bill

wayne3burk

StantonZ wrote: »

I use....Yamaha DSP-A1 Integrated Amp
(4) Polk Monitor 10B's (R/L F/R)
(2) Polk Monitor 4's (dual centers)

What is thread-jacking???

I rarely see anyone using Yamaha AVR / DSP / HTR here. It's kinda nice to see.
Someone else mentioned lobing in using a 2 center channel speakers. And yet yamaha equipment is even designed to be set up with 2 center channels on some models.

Other models allow you to set up "presence" speakers to compliment your front speakers (used in music dsp mode).

anyways - maybe yamaha envisions you putting the 2 center channel speakers on each side of your TV. with the thought that by the time the "mono" output of these speakers reach your listening position that they are essentially "positioned" in the center aurally.

ok -- thread-jacking officially over

wayne

devani

there's a guy selling monitor 5 C(?) a single speaker for $10 in NJ...

rayslifecycle

I use a CS245 for my center - silk dome tweeter - just like my peerless equiped monitor 10 fronts, monitor 7 rears - but I have heard on this forum and am still looking on polks ebay store for a CSiA6 for a center channel