Mix-n-match fronts and surrounds?

Corn

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I'm finishing my basement and have pretty much shot my HT budget on my TV (Pioneer 6020) and receiver (Onkyo 875). I've got a nice set of 3 M&K 750's for the front/center that have been collecting dust (lets just say they didn't go with the decor and my wife has buried my balls somewhere out back and I haven't found them yet). The way my basement is laid out makes it very difficult for speaker placement and therefore I'm stuck with having to go the in ceiling speaker route.

The tweeters on the M&K's are of the silk dome variety so I was thinking of picking up a set of Polk TC620i for the rear since they also have silk dome tweeters. I'm wondering how important do you all believe timbre matching front to rear is?
 

Slick5150

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Not nearly as important as matching the fronts to the center. You don't get a lot of dialogue out of the rears so its not as noticable of they aren't exactly matched.
 

alcoholbob

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Well this is nothing more than "opinion" but I think dispersion is the most important thing for surrounds. But since you are going with in-walls my impression is performance is going to be compromised for decor.
 

Corn

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Originally posted by: Astrallite
Well this is nothing more than "opinion" but I think dispersion is the most important thing for surrounds. But since you are going with in-walls my impression is performance is going to be compromised for decor.

It doesn't have much to do with decor. Having to deal with basement posts has made it impossible to center the TV to the middle of the room. Of course I would prefer a set of di or tripolar speakers, but because of extreme variation in distance I believe sound quality would greatly suffer by mounting on the walls. I've got a 2 year old and pedestal mounts are likewise out of the question as I don't want to find my speaker tipped over. I'm open to any suggestions you might have though.