Can satellites be used as regular speakers?

[bodegasteve]

Sorry gang, after 6 months of trying to do this part-time I’m on vacation and working on setting up my music/theater every day now. Of course that means questions come up every day.


Originally I bought a Paradigm Cinema 90 package, 4 satellites and the boombox. But I’ve decided to use my old v.1 Atoms as the fronts leaving me with a spare set of Cinema 90’s (I bought the setup 5 months ago and the dealer won’t take them back individually.)


So can I use the spare Cinema 90’s as mini-speakers in my office? Or are they meant only for the high ranges while the powered sub (corrrect terminology replaced incorrect slang) handles the low frequency stuff?

[fighterofthefoo]

Check their specs....most likely they botom out at 45hz or higher..perhaps 80hz....Paired with a nice sub it should be okay.

Front speakers are usually a little better though(sound stage, frequency range etc)

[ECA]

Look at the specs, really.
There are dynamic speakers that are awesome. Look at bose.
I went out and bought a set($30 each) of Jensens, carpeted speakers. and they are nice.

[Santaduck]

don't get me started on bose :)
EQ (necessary for those tiny drivers) wreaks havoc on phase coherence. Ditto dirty phase on multi-driver speaker towers with messy crossovers (which also applies to speaker + sub configurations, in which you may also have the problem of overlap or gaps in frequency response). But that's from an audiophile home-audio standpoint (fidelity to the original acoustic), which is about minimalism in the signal path, and 'true' soundstaging via ideal 2-channel speaker & listener positioning (rather than the bose illusion of soundstaging by bouncing sound every which way around the furniture & geometry of your room, which doesn't actually represent what it *actually* sounded like where the music was originally recorded).

however

I suppose it matters what purpose you are using the speakers for, and whether you are happy with the sound. Try it for your purpose, and see if you like it. If you do, then ignore any advice to the contrary, as long as you know what the next step up sounds like, and at what price point it is.