SF, Franco Serblin says the center speaker only complicates things and he prefers the simple two channel speaker. would the same theory apply to two and three way speakers?
I'd agree - unless you can get a center channels woofer and tweeter at exactly the same height as the left and right speakers then you will be better off in phantom and putting more money into L & R speakers (for mostly one or two people watching movies - if you always have a crowd over then you will need a center to help listeners on the extremities of the sweetspot - you can always disable it when you are alone)