For Christmas this year Santa delivered me a Polk CS2 center speaker for my home theater setup.  The orignial center that came bundled with my Onyko HT-R340 had clearly been overpowered when I upgraded the front channels to Polk R50s earlier in the year.  This led to movie nights where I had to guard the remote, turning up the volume during speaking parts and frantically scrambling to turn it back down during loud scenes when there was a surprise explosion or some gunfire.  The upgrade presented a new problem however, where to place the speaker.

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