Could these work as two front side speakers and two rear speakers? or should I get the bookshelf speakers for the fronts
175760
I am using these as side speakers in my living room and not as television speakers. I can tell you they sound great.
175761
I have 4... 2 sides and 2 backs and they sound great. But I would not use these as fronts. Not enough range and they are designed to distribute the sound to the sides as much as they do the front (see a picture with the grill off... the horns are at a 45 degree angle). If you can't get full fronts I would go with a bookshelf like the RB-41 II or 51. Without full fronts make sure you have a good sub.
175762
They could - but if it were me, I'd utilize them as rear L and R. I am currently running these as my rear speakers and they are great. However, I feel that if these were my front L and R - I would not be happy. Have you looked into the floor standing reference series towers? I am running those as my fronts with a matching center channel and could not be happier. Hope this helps a bit!
1576090
If you are talking about using them as a second main output, you will probably be okay so long as you aren't driving them at full volume. If you mean "rear" as in surround sound, then you have no worries. Surround output on the rear channel will never drive them extremely hard.
1170189
Well you have four outputs for speakers at the back, I guess you can use two for monitor and two for speakers..
728516
I use them as rear speakers actually. you can make these speakers as rear or from as long as you have a receiver to connect them to.one thing I found out was that it still would give you 2.1 surround sound and not 5.1 because of the way a/v receiver senses them. I use them at home with my tv and it doesn't make difference and sounds pretty good. also acoustimass is not actually a subwoofer but it is kind of a subwoofer. performance is a little bit down if you are expecting some boom boom woofer performance. Just FYI.
367292
If you are using them for your rear speakers, they will be just fine with your system. We have about same set up and they work very nice.
1183233
I don't see why not... They are normal bookshelf speakers that would be best suited for a 2 channel system
1289731
These are usually only for door speakers. Rear speakers are a different connector that is not even close to the same size.
703297
They would work for rear surround speakers, but there are constraints. The speaker is deeper than it is wide and there is a port on the back of the unit so you can't flush mount it to the wall. They would have to be on a stand or shelf. They make a L820 model if you need to mount them on the wall. These speakers sound great.
920347
I have these set up in a surround schema, but would not recommend them as a "main" set of speakers unless your space is constrained to bookshelves. These are actually decent speakers, especially for the price point.
669168
Your front speakers are 6.5" so these speakers will work. You will want 5.25" speakers to replace the rear speakers.
1012254
You should be able to. They are wire connected so as long as other speakers could be driven by relatively low output of the receiver they should work. The speakers that come with this system are just fine for a bookshelf system however.
729974
I also have a question about this, are there any speaker stands that hold 2 speakers per stand, side by side or something? I don't really have the space to set up 4 rear speakers on individual stands (plus it would look kind of stupid in my apartment).
652876
Yes. In a smaller room they would be fine for front speakers. I use them for my rears in the surround sound system.
1849250
two speakers, and unless you can put 6x9s in ur front doors they are rear speakers
1351818
You could use these for your front L/R speakers. There's no way that I would use then from my rear or my surround speakers. They're too big for surround or rears. You didn't mention your receiver model. Of course, if it's only a 5.1 receiver, you still need to upgrade to a 7.1 receiver.
1792002
I think they are meant to be front speakers. That is where I have them in a fairly small room and they are excellent.Todd
138744
The speakers come ready. However, 5.1 implies 2 front, 2 rear, 1 center (front) and 1 subwoofer. You will need 2 more speakers.