You don’t want to go too cheap on the surrounds. You want something solid and durable because of how awkward it can be to reach them (you don’t want to have to replace nor troubleshoot them every six month), but as far as movies are concerned, there’s not much information coming out of there. You get your usual suspects: rain, helicopters, planes, dogs barking, birds etc. High fidelity is not really paramount and they don’t have to match the front necessarily. Good luck.
Quality of surround and ceiling speakers
How much does quality matter for surround and ceiling speakers? Can these be substantially less expensive than the front an center speakers?
I am interested in what people think in general, and I will give my example.
Sometime in the next year I will upgrade my surround sound processor to Trinnov Aplitude 16. In preparation, I plan to upgrade older surround and ceiling speakers, 4 of each.
My front are Sonus Faber Serafino and the center is Sonus Faber Olympica Nova CII. These are all relatively new. The 2 channel preamp is Simaudio 891 and amps 2 Simaudio 761 bridged. 2 SVS SB16 subs.
I most often listen to 2 channel for music, surround system with theater bypass for movies, sports and sometimes music with video (opera, for instance).
My choice for the ceiling: PC 582 ($650), PC 682 ($950) and PC 683 ($1050). For the surround PL 563 ($1400) and PL 664 ($2650).
I am inclined to go with the 5 series (~$8000) vs 6 series (~$14000).
What do people think about my choice and in general about the quality of surround and ceiling speakers compared to front, center and subs?
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Spending an extra $6k for the 6 series for what is just ambient sound is fairly nuts to me and hard to imagine the 5 series won’t be perfectly fine. With the money you save you could add two more subs that’d probably make a bigger difference anyway and take an African safari — that’s my perspective anyway. Best of luck. |
In case that dreaded WAF veto starts to manifest itself,,,.,. and in-wall surrounds need to be considered,…. then think MONITOR AUDIO as an option to avoid audio multi-channel,installation purgatory https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/creator-series/creator-series-in-wall-models/
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