anyone use monitor 7b as rear surround?

Kenshin Himura
Kenshin Himura Posts: 23
edited September 2013 in Speakers
i'm looking into making a surround system based around my sda crs. my possibilites locally are getting a monitor 7b or a rti-70 to use as the rear speakers. any help is appreciated. thanks.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited September 2013
    Monitor 7, it's timbre matched. It doesn't matter for rears but it doesn't hurt.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • jimbo1421
    jimbo1421 Posts: 772
    edited September 2013
    It seemed a shame to waste a nice pair of 7As (Peerless tweeter) on surround duty, but that is what I have done. They work quite well with my CRS+.

    Jim
    5.1 System:
    TCL R613 55" 4K
    Front: SRS-3.1TL
    Center: CS400i
    Surround: Monitor 10B
    PSW10 subwoofer
    Onkyo PR-SC886P Pre/Pro
    NAD T955 5 channel power amplifier
    Technics SL-1710 MK2 turntable
    Audio-Technica AT14Sa cartridge
    Parasound P3 pre-amp
    Oppo BDP-103 Blu-Ray
    2014 MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz

    2.0 Office System:
    Monitor 10A (Peerless)
    Outlaw 1050 receiver
    Parasound HCA-1000A power amp
    MacPro
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  • Kenshin Himura
    Kenshin Himura Posts: 23
    edited September 2013
    great. thanks guys.
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,668
    edited September 2013
    Ive heard of using monitor 4's also-which is a sweet little speaker for surrounds i would think
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