Seeking advice/opinions etc. on side surround speakers...

[Happy Joe]

I use my living room as my home theater and listening room.Its your basic 17 foot x 12 ' 4" x 8' box.
having the main listening position against the end wall in the long direction and social seating against the other walls.
The corners are occupied by speaker towers. Polk R-700s at the front and NHT 2.5 I speakers in the rear

I'm looking for thin-ish wall mount-able side surround speaker options, at, hopefully, a moderate budget.
So far the cheapest option that I have come up with are a pair of, stacked, 6 1/16 inch deep, Polk es-35 center channel speakers

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-d3bQ9ofR8wi/p_107ES35WN/Polk-Audio-Signature-Elite-ES35-Walnut.html?tp=189

mounted to each of the long walls (above a small table on one side and above a loveseat on the other). I realize small speakers are not great at sound reproduction; but I'm willing to take the hit to get side surround sound effects. ( ... and I have several of these that are seeking usefulness).
Note; I am not willing to do "in the wall" speakers.

...Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome...

Enjoy!

 

[j_garcia]

Well, it says they go to 68Hz and you HAVE them, so I don't see why not. Not ideal obviously, but no reason why they wouldn't work.

 

[Happy Joe]

Thanks, for the response.

Note: I do intend to add at least one high quality subwoofer; in the future and all of the on the wall speakers (KEF, Martin logan, Focal) that I have been looking at on line seem to need/recommend subwoofer support.

I have mocked up the 2 speaker stack on one wall (sitting on the back of the loveseat) and it seems to give a fuller/richer sound than just one of the es-35s. I haven't noticed any significant boomy-ness yet... the 2 speaker stack should give roughly a 3 db level increase.

Enjoy!

 

[lovinthehd]

You're planning on doubling up these speakers on the same amp channels?