Finally im a proud Pioneer 5010FD owner :D ! I'll receive my TV next Tueasday, and i just wanted to know if i could use the TV's bottom speaker as centre speaker with my home theater. I have a Yamaha HTR-5630 receiver with yamaha speakers. Thanks.

Finally im a proud Pioneer 5010FD owner :D ! I'll receive my TV next Tueasday, and i just wanted to know if i could use the TV's bottom speaker as centre speaker with my home theater. I have a Yamaha HTR-5630 receiver with yamaha speakers. Thanks.

Why would you want to? It will sound awful and not match your other speakers at all. You'll get far better sound by running a phantom center.

You know this question comes up all the time and the answer is always that it can't really be done and even if it could it shouldn't be since it will probably sound terrible.

However, in this case I think this is one of the few TV's where it can be done. Since this TV has removable speakers which hook up with normal speaker wires you could run speaker wire up to the TV speaker and hook it up to the little spring clips and the TV speaker will serve as the center channel.

However #2: I think that speaker is rated for like 15 Watts. You will have to have a very careful trigger finger with the volume knob on the receiver or you will blow that speaker.

However #3: It will probably sound bad since unless you have terrible left/right speakers the TV speakers will not come close to matching the sound across the front sound stage.

Advice: Tell the Receiver you don't have a center channel. This will create the "phantom center" in the previous post. See how you like this. You might be surprised. Especially if you sit towards the middle anyways.

If you don't like it hook up that TV speaker and give it a try. (Probably won't sound good)

If you don't like that look around for a center that will work. Lots of speaker companies are putting out centers that are designed to work with flat panel tv's hanging on the wall. You won't get "audiophile" sound but it will be a heck of a lot better than the TV speakers.

Thanks for the reply. I have a Yamaha center speaker im using right now. I was just curious. Probably i'll change the speakers to something else in a future.