Need your expert advice to match me up with a pair of fronts.

[Rkulp]

I am finally moving into a house and want to finish my home theater system.
Right now I have Polk Monitor 30s that I plan on using for the rears and a Polk PSW10 subwoofer.

I plan on having a "phantom center" so right now all I need is a decent pair of fronts. What should I look for when matching up my current speakers? Should I stay with Polk or can I go with another brand like Klipsch, Definitive, Mirage, etc.

[Mr Peabody]

I would recommend keeping with Polk unless you plan to change rears at some point. If you go with some like Klipsh or Def Tech which will have a drastically different sound than Polk the difference may be too obvious. Some feel the rears being a different brand aren't that important. It probably depends on how picky you are and how much 5 channel music and movies you will listen to. The rears aren't as active as the fronts but they will receive a full frequency response, less whatever you direct to sub.

I do not have same series for rear but do use same brand.

[pixelthis]

I am finally moving into a house and want to finish my home theater system.
Right now I have Polk Monitor 30s that I plan on using for the rears and a Polk PSW10 subwoofer.

I plan on having a "phantom center" so right now all I need is a decent pair of fronts. What should I look for when matching up my current speakers? Should I stay with Polk or can I go with another brand like Klipsch, Definitive, Mirage, etc.

Stay with Polks, its good to have all match.
And rethink the phantom center choice, 90% of the sound in an HT comes from the center, its your most important speaker in HT, cant spend too much on one.
Polk makes some inexpensive ones, better than nothing.

[Mr Peabody]

I personally would recommend a center with no less than a 5 1/4" driver, even though you can set your receiver to small and adjust crossover. I know companies try to provide budget minded and space saving products but I feel anything smaller is a waste of money.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

I personally would recommend a center with no less than a 5 1/4" driver, even though you can set your receiver to small and adjust crossover. I know companies try to provide budget minded and space saving products but I feel anything smaller is a waste of money.

I agree with you on this!

[Mr Peabody]

I agree with you on this!

Hey... it's a numbers game, it was bound to happen one of these days

[harley .guy07]

I personally would recommend a center with no less than a 5 1/4" driver, even though you can set your receiver to small and adjust crossover. I know companies try to provide budget minded and space saving products but I feel anything smaller is a waste of money.

I agree too even though I have a center channel that some would think of as a cheap speaker heck it does a wonderful job and I have not done much to improve on this speaker. At the time I bought my paradigms and was building my theater I did not have room for the bigger paradigm center channel so I opted for this center after hearing it and it does a fine job as a center and was cheap to buy on sale. It has 6" woofers and 1" tweeter so it is about the limit I would want to go with how small a center to go with otherwise you would take a risk of dynamic compression on the lossless blue ray disks but this center just takes it and keeps on runnin good.

[luvtolisten]

The Polk Monitor 70's were on sale for one day (yesterday) at this site for $153 each. They do repeat the sales, and I've heard the the Monitors series is being replaced by a new line (maybe the TSi?), which means the Monitors series will be going on sale again. I have bought from these folks,(Monitor 40's, last year) with no problems.I would keep an eye on their prices, they do have sales. Right now they are offering $3 shipping.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-015-_-Product

[Worf101]

I agree with you on this!

WHERE IS MY TERRANCE AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HIM!!!!!!!

LOL.

Worf

[pixelthis]

WHERE IS MY TERRANCE AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HIM!!!!!!!

LOL.

Worf

Prefrontal lobotomy.
Found it had already been done, closed him back up.
MAYBE a new personality ingram?