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II don't listen to the speaker when i bought it back in 1999 mabe i would have been able to tell in the store. But am i right in asuming that the C5 is NOT a timber match for the Stratus Silveri's,if so does it really matter what center i use.
Nope, PSB made the Stratus C5 as a matching solution to the Stratus speakers. To my knowledge they did not make any other speaker named a "C5" other than the ones that matched the Stratus line. So yes, the C5 is as close a timbre match as you are likely to get. To my knowledge, neither C5 nor C6 use the same drivers found in the other Stratus speakers so you're at the mercy of PSB's design philosophies. That's okay though, the crossover in a center channel with identical drivers would have to be much different anyway, which means the speakers would have to be "voiced" to match the Stratus mains, the same method I'm sure they used when designing the C5 and C6.

You may get lucky and find a center channel speaker that sounds closer in tone to your main speakers than the C5, but considering that every other manufacturer likely made their center channels match their main speakers and not PSB's main speakers, I'm not very optimistic of your chances of finding a better match than PSB's C5 or C6, which was designed to match PSB's Stratus main speakers.