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Fayne
2603
Nov 19, 2020
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These are pretty great center speakers. Especially so if you end up using two of them as bookshelf towers. Better than the SP-BS22, worse than the SP-FS52.
areyoudumborwhat
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Nov 20, 2020
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FayneThese would be decent for a 3.1 home theater setup?
Fayne
2603
Nov 20, 2020
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areyoudumborwhatFor sure. Especially if you're talking with a subwoofer. I've the whole Andrew Jones set (without the Atmos), and found that it is great bang for buck when it comes to home theatre.
The typical pair of bookshelves with a single centre and subwoofer will sound good, same with three centres and a sub. With a reasonably powered solid state, you should be able to fill a small to medium sized room with ear melting goodness. Might be a bit small for a large room, unless you don't need wall shaking. I find that in 2.1, a simple 12w tube amp is able to deafen me quite nicely, without having to take the volume knob over 50%.
I mostly run 2.1, with a pair of the AJ centres, bookshelves, and towers running through an impedance matching box so I get high sound pressure at low volumes. Subwoofer coming off of the pre-out on my Freya+. I flipped the Centres on end and use them as left and rights.
Example photo, pardon the mess:
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Fayne
2603
Jan 18, 2021
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Ptolemy12Top left is a Primaluna Prologue 5 power amp using Tung-Sol KT120, top right is a Yaqin MC-6P1P integrated tube amp using Svetlana 6P1P-EV, bottom is a Schiit Freya+ preamp using TungSol 6SN7.
Under the Freya+ is a Schiit Ragnarok 2 solid state amp. Not shown in picture are Nobsound 6P1 and Audioromy M-828A integrated tube amps.
The Primaluna is the best sounding tube amp in that pile, but the Yaqin gets the most use overall. I have a thing for the Russian 6P1P-EV tubes it is loaded with. They have all the sound characteristics of a 6V6, but can be had at $100 for a box of 50.
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