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Looking to upgrade my back surround sound speakers

I am looking to upgrade both my back surround sound speakers as part of my 5.1 setup. I currently have Martin Logan Spire as my L/R and the Martin Logan Encore as my center channel. Any suggestions? Should I keep with the Martin Logan brand...do they make dipole/bipole/monopole speakers?

I have a beam about 10 inches behind the listening area and a wall in which I would mount the rears. I prefer not to dig into the wall and thus prefer mounted speakers.
pig2fever
eldartford
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If you are only concerned with ambience, minimal surround speakers are OK. But there is quite a lot of music where the surround speakers are important... properly recorded antiphonal music in particular. I had to upgrade my surround speakers when I realized this.
chadnliz
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I figured its more about home theater since it was posted here and yes music is a different animal but even so for the 6 and 7th channels I would challenge most anyone to know the difference of a carefully chosen non matched speaker over a matched one. If budget restrains you from doing a match, dont sweat it too much is all I suggest.
eldartford
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Chadnliz... Agreed. Same goes for 8th, 9th, 10th...etc.
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
In 10 yrs we are going to be listening to 50.8 systems lol
pig2fever OP
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I just realized that the beam is only 7 inches wide and thus your typical back surround is ~10 inches. So I am now looking into Anthony Gallo speakers. Never really heard of them. What is your opionions?
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