Thanks, that center looks great, and KEF is known for its great performance. just what makes you sure that it would go great with the image t6?
I'm not sure
..,. Well if it's accurate, it should go rather well with the T6 if that is accurate... that is the only thing we can assume. The more either speaker deviates from accurate (like the paradigms do IME) then the more we hear timbre differences. The less they deviate from accurate on AND off axis the less we hear timbre differences. It still doesn't account for phase differences or unwanted resonances but I think that the way multichannel content is recorded, timbre matching is an overated thing. For starters, center channels are in front of our ears, and left/right mains are angled in straight at our ears. That right there is already a source of a timbre difference, even with the exact same speakers. Then there's room placement. We can overlook all of this, even as a car zooms between the three front speakers, only because these kind of special effects happen quickly. The question then becomes "what about vocals". Well you want speakers that do the vocal region well, of course. You don't want speakers to do much audible to vocal timbre. You can only hope they're well designed. Also, when it comes to movies, how often do vocals pan like that? I find that the most important thing is vocal intelligibility, not natural panning. The smooth dispersion pattern of the KEF center should perform better than an MTM center, especially off axis but even on axis because of reflection colorations. So if the center is 90% vocals, you want good vocals.
I don't know if it'll blend in perfectly smoothly enough to be listening to multi channel music with the different center but the important thing for a center channel should be that it's accurate and has wide dispersion. I don't think MTM center speakers, even with the same drivers/designer, blend very well themselves.
What I do know is that Kal Rubinson reviewed the T6 here
http://www.stereophile.com/content/psb-image-t6-loudspeaker-measurements
and the on-axis as well as off-axis measurements look very good to me. So at least the T6s are pretty accurate. Not garauntee with the KEFs to be 100% honest with you. I've never seen measurements of lower end KEFs nor have I heard them. The Reference series obviously measure extremely well (with excellent on and off axis performance, even in the vertical plane. It was a suggestion, hopefully with a return policy of some sort you could take advantage of if things didn't work out.
