you are saying i need to buy 3 more genelec 8030cs to make proper use of it? Or if i buy 5 cheap speakers would i get more enjoyment out of them with music than 2 genelecs?…
…You don’t need Genelecs for surround/height channels. Go slow and dip your toes in with building up your base level speakers first. 7.1 or 7.2. If you like that and want more. Then move into some height/ceiling speakers.
I agree with Adam and would like to add more reasons.
Your notion, spartaman, that you would have to take your two 8030C’s out of your system to go MCH and use 5 cheaper speakers, clearly implies that you think all the MCH speakers have to be identical.
And no wonder: we often see the advice to use the same speaker for all MCH channels. And it’s good advice. Good solid advice, and pretty much
de rigueur advice for beginners and audiophiles who don’t want to escalate their level of thinking about audio gear selection. But in truth it is a shortcut. A shortcut for the real requirement, that is to maintain consistent tonal expression from all the speakers.
That consistency can be achieved in different ways. With a brand like Genelec or Revel, one could almost mix-and-match different models to suit budget and space. Or, with EQ and measurement tools, a variety of well-behaved speakers could be pressed into service and adjusted, delivering real excellence.
Depending on the circumstances, there could be real advantages to the latter approach. If the couch is near to the rear of the room, duplicates of large FL and FR speakers might work less well than well-behaved in-walls with wider dispersion and EQ’d to match tonality. And that’s just one example: there are others, but I just want to illustrate a point.
cheers