Mixing floorstanders with Jamo A102 speakers

paulpud

I have just installed my first 'proper' (albeit fairly basic) home cinema system, an Onkyo 507 amp with the Jamo a102 speaker package.

I'm really pleased with the sound for watching TV but less than blown away with it's reproduction of music.

Would it be ok to replace the front left/right Jamo speakers with a couple of floorstanders to get the sort of music sound I am used to, and would these then be ok to reproduce the 5.1 home cinema sound along with the Jamo centre, sub and rear surrounds?

Thanks

Hammyman

Yes, perfectly fine. The surrounds don't give out a lot of "big" sound usually anyway so you'll not notice the mismatch. Just make sure the speaker impedance is suitable.

I can see why you'd want to as I bet they sound as tinny as hell.

trets77

none of my speakers are by the same make .(Dali centre , Cambridge audio floor standers , Mourdant Short rears and sub)

using floorstanders is perfectly fine. you will probably need to do some tweaking in the amps settings though . setting the size to large will mean the floorstanders are asked to handle some low frequency output . this might be ideal or totally blow your head off . depends on your room, set up ect . your Onkyo should do the rest in the auto calibration .

also like hammyman says check the impedance settings.

InsideInsurance

The audiophiles will say you need to match the front 3 speakers as you will frequently get sound effects panning from one side to the other via the centre. To obviously go OTT - get it too badly wrong and your watching a bike go across and it'll start off sound like a harley, switch to a moped in the centre and then back to a harley on the otherside.

The reality is that it is ideal to match the 3 but for 99% of the world a well setup system with a non-matching centre is going to be hardly noticable

paulpud

Thanks for the advice.

I may yet go with a couple of decent bookshelf speakers now I know mixing isn't too much of an issue as long as impedance is ok. It isn't so much a tinny sound problem as an uncontrollable bass. Plenty of it from the sub but it's woolly and varies so much from track to track and where you are in the room.