Surroundbar hookup with existing front speakers

Canadian12

Folks,

I've looked for this post already, so my apologies if this is redundant. I'm about to purchase a surroundbar and when I'm reviewing the manual's, it looks the surroundbar is intended for rear and front speakers.

I already have RTI12's for front's and just want the surrounbar for the rear channels.

I'm sure I can avoid using the front's but has anyone experienced this, or is this a non-issue?

Thanks,

jimbo1421

The SurroundBar 42" and 50" have front, center and rear channels. The SB center would not be timbre matched to your RTi12s, so that would not work well. I assume that you want to just leave the front channels of the SurroundBar disconnected. As an experiment I once tried my SurroundBar 42" with the front and center channels turned off. This left a sound stage of ambient noises that was, at most, 180°, with most of the sound coming from the front 90°. I tend to think that you would be better off getting a matching center as part of a 3.1 system.

Jim

wutadumsn23

I would have to agree with the above post that the SurroundBar wouldn't be ideal as a surround speaker. Look into a set of FXi5's if you want to get some surrounds. Or look into a CSi5 for your center, I would get the center first, esp. if you do any movie watching. Hope this helps.

-Jeff

Canadian12

Gents,

Thanks very much for the reply. Probably saved me a $700 experiment that may not have turned out......!

Just trying to save the wiring job for the rear speakers, but I suppose that the lazy way anyhow.

I like the suggestions for Center channel. Any thoughts about the Rears? Bang for the buck?

Thanks again

wutadumsn23

wutadumsn23 wrote: »

Look into a set of FXi5's if you want to get some surrounds.


-Jeff

Or even the TC80i's if you want to go the in ceiling route.

-Jeff