Why not use mains as centers

All I know, is that where I have set it up, it sounded fantastic. Not sure of the physics behind it, but the 2 MMG's emitting the center works very well in a home theater I set up for someone in my neighborhood, who didn't want to give up his MMG's.

Good. As I said, and for many reasons, Maggies are a special case.

Kal

Do people really think the extra effort put into time aligning the drivers, making non-parallel cabinet faces, controlling horizontal dispersion, etc. becomes unimportant in the most important sepaker in the system? You can either think it is unimportant in all of the speakers, or important in all of the speakers, but it doesn't make sense to think it is only important in the side channels, but not in the center. In both stereo and multi-channel, you are trying to get image continuity between an array of speakers - same problems whether you have 2, 3, or 5 speakers.

Right, Bob, except I did that a few years back. ;-)

I recall being annoyed at the repetition of basic articles in the hobbyist mags every 2-3 years back when I was an avid reader of the audio and photography mags. Now, I realize that there are new readers coming on board all the time and they never saw the previous publications.

Still, today, everything is archived on the Internet. Unfortunately, no one new knows to search for that stuff until something becomes an issue for him.

Kal