I currently have a Sony Receiver STR-897 7.1 receiver. 5 Mirage Omnisat Micro with a dual 10 Mirage sub. My Tv is a 42 inch Sony WEGA LCD. I currently have one of the Mirage speakers as my center and I was looking for a little more. Any suggestions on what I should change?
Better mid range sound from the center channel. This is my 1st home theater set up and I am not sure what to look for with the center channel. I was considering taking the mirage speaker and using it as a rear center and getting a new center. I dont know what to look for in a center channel speaker.
In a center channel, more and bigger drivers (a midrange-tweeter-midrange design) will usually be the best way to go. I would never use a satellite speaker for a center.
Well, many times it's not the speaker but the receiver. Those Mirage speakers are "better" than that Sony receiver. I hate to say it but you should have asked this before the layout on the sony receiver. Even though those Mirage speakers are good they are still basic stuff and not earth shattering. I have a set of Mirage speakers that I bought back in 1991, and to me Mirage has gone downhill even since. But for sure those speakers would sound a lot better with a NAD, Rotel, receiver or anything in that class of goods. It's the old thing, sh1t in - sh1t out.
I would not throw out the baby on this one either. The bathwater, yes. Replacing the center with another(better) might help, but circumvents the issue, I think.
Sony might not be 'bad', but theres not many ways around it.
if that Sony has pre-outs, try hooking up the Adcom.
Yes the Sony is a weak receiver, but in any case having a full-sized center is still much preferable to a satellite center, IMO. Remember that the center does about 60% of the work in most HT content.
Why only 1 Channel Nuck? Stereo out of fashion? Seems to me that the centre channel is hard to make sound well. I have listned to some big coin (3k) units with centres in the 1k+ range, and they still seemed grainy.
Well Eric was looking for the center channel specifically. I know Art picked up his center with an Outlaw 200 mono, and liked it. The beauty of power amps is one channel at a time, like the Rotel i use, its like 5xmonos. Very handy.
My Adcom is a GFA-545 II. I have not tried it due to it was running a pair of Carver AL-III Dipolar speakers in my basement. Any ideas what center channel speakers might be a good match with the mirage speakers?