Speaker Question?

[seaside1]

I will be using bookshelf speakers as my surround speakers and I'd like to know whether the speakers need to match my left and right bookshelf speakers? I have the Polk Audio TSI-200's and was thinking of using the smaller TSI-100's.
Thanks

 

[bikdav]

My Thought

I will be using bookshelf speakers as my surround speakers and I'd like to know whether the speakers need to match my left and right bookshelf speakers? I have the Polk Audio TSI-200's and was thinking of using the smaller TSI-100's.
Thanks

That is a good question. In most systems, the rear speakers are much smaller than the fronts. For example, the fronts can be big towers and the rears can be bookshelf or wall mounted speakers with a 4 or 5 inch woofer and a 1 inch tweeter _ something of that nature. That makes a lot of sense, because rear speakers are usually not required to handle bass. Bass duty goes to the towers and/or subwoofer. Furthermore, if the front speakers can't handle bass duty reasonably well either, then obviously that becomes the subwoofer's job. So, in your case I don't think that you're going to have any problems.

 

[jliedeka]

It's really more important to have the front 3 speakers timbre matched. If you listen to a lot of multichannel music, you might want the surrounds to be closely matched also. If the speakers you are considering are from the same line as the fronts, that's probably close enough.

Jim