Mixing Klipsch Speakers??

[NewbieRob]

Does anyone here use a Klipsch center with speakers from a different company for your front right and lefts? I know it is important to timber match (and know that Klipsch sound different than most other brands), but I am curious if anyone has matched with sucess. Thanks.

[BluBitRates]

I highly doubt it, atleast successfully. I can see if some people are into music having nice klipsch front left and rights and then cheaper center and surrounds.I speak only for the reference line, could be entirely a different situation for heretage

[Dr. Jim Mixon]

I would tend to agree with BBR. If I were any sort of audiophile, I probably wouldn't be happy with mixing heritage gear with a reference center and sub; but it sounds just fine to me. I don't know about trying it with other brands. What kind of Klipsch center do you have?

Marantz SR 5004

Klipshorn x 2 walnut for fronts

Klipsch RC-64 cherry center

Klipsch KG-1's x 2 for surrounds

Klipsch RW 12 D black ash subwoofer

Samsung 1600 Blu-Ray

Samsung DVD-VR 325 recorder

Dish 222 Dual Sat. Receiver

Onyko DX-C200 5 disc CD player

Sharp 42 HDTV

[Zen Traveler]

Does anyone here use a Klipsch center with speakers from a different company for your front right and lefts? I know it is important to timber match (and know that Klipsch sound different than most other brands), but I am curious if anyone has matched with sucess. Thanks.

It is important to timbre match but not because "klipsch sound different than most other brands," but because most brands have different sound characteristics from each other.

[Dr. Jim Mixon]

This is the way "timbre" was explained to me: Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion can both sing "middle C"; the same indentical frequency, the same identical note. "Timbre" is what makes Streisand sound like Streisand and Dion sound like Dion. Is that "it" in a nutshell?