Surround Speaker Question

Greetings

What speakers do you have for your fronts and what are you using for electronics? If you simply ask what are good surround speakers, I think that's the wrong question. If you get a different brand of speakers than your fronts they likely will not be timbre matched and when you ha e surround effects, especially effects that go between the surrounds and mains, it will sound different.

Secondly, you can either go for direct radiating or dipole surrounds. There are merits to each. Thus you may be able to get a direct radiating speaker (like a bookshelf) version of your fronts. You then have both timbre matching and placement options.

Regards
Theo

Timbre is not critical for the surrounds. Fronts and center, yes.

I would disagree with that statement... If you go back to the days of Pro-Logic, yes, surrounds were limited to a point where you could use very different speakers than your L/C/R's. Today, the high resolution formats and the amount of information used in the surrounds, you'll head the different right away. Use timbre matched surrounds to your fronts (best would of course to have all identical speakers, but that's not always practical)

Thank you all very much. I am using a Krell HTS preamp, Sherbourn Power, Faroudja DVD/CD, and Martin Logan Source speakers for main

As usual, there are going to be some that read to much into it. The OP wants a suggestion on surrounds without giving any info on the rest of his speakers.
Myself, I feel any good dynamic speaker that will convey background info will do in a normal HT setup.
If he was so critical, he would already know to buy the same brand and model as his fronts.