Two speakers for center?

[Drewbert]

I was wondering how it would sound? Just use two bookshelves in place of the center. So Im sure Im not the first one to think of it, so who has done it? How did you like it?

[George Bellefontaine]

I thought I read something on this somewhere and that it wasn't a good idea. But maybe I'm just imagining things. I'm no expert on speakers so I'm sure someone else here is knowledgable on this subject.

[rav934]

I compared a B&W LRC600 center speaker to two B&W DM601s (same drivers in each). I did not like the two speaker approach.

[aud19]

Two many problems with getting two speakers to sync properly. There's no reason you can't use one bookshelf in place of a purpose built horizontal centre speaker though

[Paul H]

Two speakers will result in 'comb filtering', especially of the higher frequencies. The sound waves from the tweeters will overlap and interfere with each other resulting in some frequencies being cancelled and some reinforced (increased).

This will result in an uneven and likely unclear sound.


Paul