R15's as a Center?

rshishido
rshishido Posts: 1
edited January 2005 in Speakers
Hi,

I am on a limited budget - a friend offered to loan his Polk R15 bookshelf for use as a center on my system which currently uses R30's as fronts -

Any issues?

Disadvantages?

Alternatives? (must be economically feasible)

Thanks!!
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,413
    edited January 2005
    FREE CENTER CHANNEL, USE IT, NO PROBLEM
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  • Mjr7531
    Mjr7531 Posts: 856
    edited January 2005
    No problem with that, just make sure you hook up one R15 if your receiver can only handle an 8 ohm load (like most.) If you can handle four ohms, keep in mind that there may be comb filtering, but that is up to you whether you care or not, try stacking them so the tweeters are closest. that wuold give you best results.
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  • okiepolkie
    okiepolkie Posts: 2,258
    edited January 2005
    There isn't anything wrong with using a bookshelf as a center(just look at my signature). Besides my current setup, I used an RT35 as a center for a quite some time.
    If you look at the CSi20, which would be the match for R30's, it only uses one woofer and a tweeter. Therefore there won't be a lot of differences. The R15 should have the same woofer and tweeter if I remember right(someone correct me please if I have this mixed up).

    Get it, hook it up, and enjoy it.
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    edited January 2005
    The Polk Audio CSi20 center channel is almost the same as the R15 except the CSi20 lays on its side. So, basically, lay the R15 on its side & you've got a slightly smaller CSi20. :D

    The R30 has a 6 1/2" woofer. The R15 & CSi20 have a 5 1/4" woofer. They all share the same 3/4" tweeter.
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