Center channel


Is there any way to get advice re: the following:
Analog and 2-channel people please ignore the following:
I have 4 Magnepans (the small ones, MMGs, direct from the factory) for front and rear speakers, but there's no way I have the space for a magnepan center channel. Is there any SMALL speaker out there which might be of comparable/compatible quality and "sound picture" to the Maggies that I could use as a center channel. I have a good sub, so low frequency extension is not an issue. I listen to classical multi-channel SACD a lot, so it has to be quality sound. (For movies I wouldn't care much.)
Dean Rishel
deanrishel

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No, but you can tell your DVD player and SS processor that you don't have a center channel speaker, and it will mix the center channel sounds into the front left and right. Because MMG image well, you will be in good shape.
Just to clarify my view about center channels (as if everyone doesn't know by now) I am a big advocate of center channel speakers, and have been since long before discrete multichannel sources were available. However, part of my argument is that the center speaker/amplification should be the same as the Left and Right. Sometimes, for HT, this is impractical. In that case you are better off with no center speaker than to use a second rate one.