What Speaker Should be Used for 6.1 Rear Surround?

Gate1way2

hi guys,
quick question, almost got my home surround sytem complete but was confused on what I should use for the rear, was planning on using a matching fxi50 but did some research and found out it was a bad idea. Can somebody recommend a speaker for the Rear 6 channel? Thanks
Currently my setup so far
Onkyo 6.1 Receiver
Polk rt1000's Left & Right Front
Polk cs400I Center
Polk fxi50's Left & Right Rear

GuitarheadCA

Typically you use another center speaker, voice matched to your other speakers.

For your system, I'd try to find on of the following:
CS400i
CS245i
CSi40
CSi30

The first two will match your front speakers a little better, and the second two will match your rear speakers a little better.

And welcome to the forum.

mantis

If your receiver has the ability to power 2 surround back speakers,I would suggest rt35i's.

I had basically the same system minus the Onkyo and found the rt35is to be perfect for this duty.

If it only has one output then another cs400i would be perfect.

Double_S

I would also recommend matching your center channel speaker if you are going 6.1. If it was 7.1 I would throw a couple of bookshelf speakers back there.

Dr. Spec

I use twin CS245i's in the rear for 7.1 - a lot of speaker for the money if you can still find them floating around on close-out.

Doc

Airplay355

what if u used an f/x type speak? would that work and how do u think it would sound?