Quote Originally Posted by superpanavision70mm
I purposefully integrated the Athena center channel into my system after listening to many other speakers because they seemed like the best match and balanced out the system best for what I prefer. Apparently some people in here think that I am wrong for doing so, and that is fine since they are not the ones that have to listen to my setup. ...
I have "mismatched" center and fronts too -- a DIY Vifa woofer / Bohlender-Graebener planar tweeter center + Paradigm MiniMonitors for fronts. They are fairly close but not an exact timbre match, neverthless they work fine for me.

IMO, it's at least as important the the fronts and center be in the same horizontal plane.