re: Speaker advice

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I'm still a bit unsure as to why it's a bad idea to mix brands. Can anyone explain it in a simple way?

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In home theater settings, your left-center-right speakers act as your front stage. You want these speakers to all be similarly voiced. So you're not just trying to go with different brand (yes, I know Energy is part of Klipsch group now), but a completely different set of materials, from aluminum tweeter to horn loaded compression driver.

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The importance of matching your center channel to your fronts has to with "timbre" matching, or the ability for all three front speakers to reproduce sound identically across the entire audible sound spectrum. This comes into play more so for the front soundstage than for the surround speakers (although timbre-matching surrounds is not a bad idea if it can be done).

You'll hear sounds pass from left to right (or vice versa) right through your center channel as well. If the speakers have similar or exact timbre, then you will not perceive a change, or shift, in the tonal quality of the audio as the sounds pan across your soundstage. Without timbre-matched speakers, the difference can be quite noticeable, deteriorating sonic imagery.

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