Leo_Norw

Thanx Dave Yes, I wired the speakers parallell. My front and center are all dual 8ohm speakers. If you look closer at the picture you'll see that the fronts are dual speakers, the upper one flipped upside-down, tweeter-to-tweeter, to keep the directional part of the sound coming from one place. My goal was to make the horizontal line through FL-C-FR as flat as possible. I've been running this setup for about 6 months now and I'm quite happy with it. I have to admit that my setup is a low-cost and not completely finished in terms of making it look good and such. It's in my basement living room, kind of a man cave and work-in-progress. A week ago I went to my local hifi-shop and tested their demo room. It was a nice $8'000ish setup, 11.1 Atmos. It all sounded VERY good, BUT... Voices sounded like the actors laid on the floor. FL and FR were on the wall nicely placed at the horisontal center line of the screen, center was just under. The test movie was Unbroken (2014). When the camera turned and sounds moved from speaker to speaker, it was just irritating when I could hear the sound coming from a much lower place, then jumping up again when the sound was panned across the three front channels. I tested with the same movie sequence at home and the center channel sounds MUCH more natural. If I ever change the TV for a projector I'll use a sound transparent screen and place the center behind it, but for now I feel I've found something that works. The dual center is something I've been thinking about for a long time, I tried to read up on it, but most of what I could find didn't agree with "my theory" so I just had to try it out and make up my own opinion. Most people who seems to know a bit (or it all...) are worried about canceling out (in lack of correct english terms, I'm norwegian...), but not mentioning speakers with two tweeters or how mono sound appears with a headset on. Yes, there's many things that can work less than optimal, but with some things like sound you just might have to try for your self. And that's the beauty with a cheap setup, I got a used identical center speaker for about $20, I'm not at all worried about the amp (Yamaha RX-V661) and so on, I could just throw it all together and listen to it. That's what I did, just to try it out. Now it stays that way Of course, what turned out great in my basement don't have to sound that great everywhere else, but would wish many more tried out their own ideas and DIY's, there's not gold under every rock, but absolutely under some of them

Necrothredia...I run two center speakers, over/under TV and in short terms, YES it works! The center channel appears to be a bit less... accurate... Dialog appears to not come from one point but from somewhere in the screen. Well, at least it works for me, I will not be changing the speaker setup, but I will be adding a 130Hz HPF to the center channel for when I'm running music in "7 channel stereo". In 7cnlS the center speakers have more air speed in through the ports than I think is good.