Need help Decideing Speaker!!!

no_skill
no_skill Posts: 2
edited February 2009 in Speakers
I need help on recommending or matching the speaker with my setup. this is what i have so far. going for 5.1 channel.


1 Receiver - Harman Kardon- avr154
2 Floor standing - Polk T90e EURO
1 Subwoofer- Polk Psw10

I need help on the center channel speaker, I was look at the cs10 price at 130
if that was a good chooise because center channel display at least 50 percent of movie audio, and I don't know what to get for a book shelf speaker, it will be use for the rear.

Thank for your help.
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  • rdb2001
    rdb2001 Posts: 791
    edited February 2009
    no_skill wrote: »
    I need help on recommending or matching the speaker with my setup. this is what i have so far. going for 5.1 channel.


    1 Receiver - Harman Kardon- avr154
    2 Floor standing - Polk T90e EURO
    1 Subwoofer- Polk Psw10

    I need help on the center channel speaker, I was look at the cs10 price at 130
    if that was a good chooise because center channel display at least 50 percent of movie audio, and I don't know what to get for a book shelf speaker, it will be use for the rear.

    Thank for your help.

    The cs1 or the cs2 and the cs10 or the cs20 would be matching centers. The cs2 and cs20 would be the better of the choice. The T90E are exactly like the monitor series speakers cosmetically and spec wise. If you could find a cs1 or cs2 and some monitor 30's or 40's as rears, you would be pretty much timbre match across the board. If you can find those, look for the cs10 or cs20 and the tsi100 and tsi200 for rears. They are the newer version of the monitor line. Check polk direct ebay site out. Hope this helps, others will chime in.
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  • wutadumsn23
    wutadumsn23 Posts: 3,702
    edited February 2009
    +1 on rdb's recommendation. I run Monitor 70's, CS2, and Monitor 40's as my surrounds. It sounds amazing and I have yet to add an external amp to any of it. I would recommend the CS2 (CS20) for your center and the Monitor 40's for your surrounds like rdb said as well. They may be a bit difficult to find since the Monitor series is kind of on the back burner now with the new TSi series, but if you can't find the 40's the TSi 200's are pretty much the same speaker and would work just fine.
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  • no_skill
    no_skill Posts: 2
    edited February 2009
    Thank you for the help, will look into it now.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited February 2009
    As far as the center channel, the CS2/CS20 would be the better choice, but the CS1/CS10 would work fine as well.

    For the surrounds, either the Monitor 30/TSi100 or the Monitor 40/TSi200 would work well. I'd recommend either the Monitor 40's or the TSi200's over the smaller bookshelves though personally.

    By the way, welcome to Club Polk.:)
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