Upgrade what you have or buy a pair of used Lineaum speakers and use one for the center channel. The second one could be saved for spare parts or 6th channel. Integration will be even more difficult if you start mixing brands.
Anyone know of a speaker mod or upgrade service?
I see ads here all the time for electronics upgrades (particularly tube stuff), but does anyone know of a service that upgrades speakers?
To put this in perspective, I have an all-Linaeum home theater; the problem is that Linaeum themselves went out of business before HT hit it big, so they never actually made a center channel of their own.
Consequently, I was stuck buying an early post-buyout, Radio Shack-built center channel which happens to use a Linaeum tweeter.
Although it matches decently, it's definitely the weak point of the system; the midbass is particularly muddy, and it lacks the dynamic punch of the rest of my system.
I imagine that, since it is Radio Shack-build, the caps and woofers are complete junk. I'd love to upgrade it, but am far from comfortable with a soldering iron.
Of course, it may not even be worth it; I may be better off getting something that matches up decently with the rest of my Linaeum stuff (maybe a Maggie center channel?) so I'm totally open to suggestion.
To put this in perspective, I have an all-Linaeum home theater; the problem is that Linaeum themselves went out of business before HT hit it big, so they never actually made a center channel of their own.
Consequently, I was stuck buying an early post-buyout, Radio Shack-built center channel which happens to use a Linaeum tweeter.
Although it matches decently, it's definitely the weak point of the system; the midbass is particularly muddy, and it lacks the dynamic punch of the rest of my system.
I imagine that, since it is Radio Shack-build, the caps and woofers are complete junk. I'd love to upgrade it, but am far from comfortable with a soldering iron.
Of course, it may not even be worth it; I may be better off getting something that matches up decently with the rest of my Linaeum stuff (maybe a Maggie center channel?) so I'm totally open to suggestion.