Has anyone ever tried two center channel speakers?

Normally designers try to align vertically the tweeter and mid range for good reasons - you should really use your speakers the way they were intended (vertical)

I'd never heard of lobing before this thread. I've used the speaker in this orientation for over a year with very good results. I had an Infinity Kappa home theater center speaker, it is an excellent speaker for a conventional sized room, it was just too small for my room. I happened to have an extra pair of Kappa 7.1's in storage....pulled one out and plunked it down and 'voila'. Now I've got myself a serious full range center channel. Standing the speaker up vertically is not a consideration and out of the question. It is just too big and tall.

Thanks for the input. I did a search for lobing in the forums here and found a lot of good info, explanations and opinions about it.

Since I have the extra amp and speaker and a huge room, I'll give it a shot anyway and see what happens. If it doesn't fly, I'll go back to business as usual.

....thanks again guys, I love this forum.

I had 2 pairs of PSB Alpha A/V's that I used for my home theater system. Since I had an extra speaker after using one for each L/R/C, I tried putting two speakers in the center channel area. Oriented horizontally, with the tweeters out, it sounded much better than a single speaker. So much so that I opened the backs, bolted them together from the inside, and screwed the backplates back on. I then got another pair so that I could stack the L + R speakers as well, because I found it to be such an improvement.

I realize this runs contrary to what people have said thus far on this thread, but I experimented and found that it worked great. 6 years later, this is still my center channel speaker.

Michael

I once had two right channel speakers to the same effect.

I'm with Michael--if it sounds good to you--go 4 it. None of the detractors should be invited to your home,a?