Running a mixed center channel question

[No_hair_left]

I am currently running a kef r2 meta with some left/right xtz cinema m6's. Was very happy with the sound either using xt32 with a 1k curtain and now using a1 evo, until last night when I watched the revenant again for the first time since release. This a a film that has a lot of voice panning scenes from center all the way around to the surrounds. It was pretty apparent that the xtz speakers are "voiced" differently to the kef center and when to voice panned it was a touch brighter on the xtz to the point where I noticed it easily. Why is it the voices sound brighter but sound effects and everything else sounds the same across the pan.

I feel like my only options now are to sell the xtz left and right and buy what looks to be the inferior q4 meta on walls (£700) that have just released or

sell the r2 meta and try to buy another m6 but because I live in the uk cause of brexit that would cost me roughly £550ish. I prefer the sound of the r2meta as a center channel when compared to the xtz as a center but am unsure if even the q4 meta would be a tonal match for voices with the r2 meta as its still their budget tier.

Any way Im able to reduce the brightness or is it just the speakers that are the issue?
Full range calibration sounds shocking across the board so cant do that. Is there a frequency that the voices are sent across?

 

[No_hair_left]

the highlighted one is the center. Would the area between 1k - 2k be the problem? the rest seems fairly even

 

[phoenixdogfan]

I use a Kef HTC 3001 SE as my center, and it's a seamless match with my 4 LS 50's. Cost me $125 on Ebay and I power it with a aiyima A07 which cost around $75. So I was able to add a center channel for $200. Because of it's shape, it also has a very low profile, so it fits under a lot of TV's right one the surface of the equipment cabinet, so it's firing from roughly the same level as the L-R. And since it has the coaxial driver, no problems with vertical off axis dispersion, as long as you keep things reasonable. I would urge anyone looking for a center to consider that speaker. It's great.

 

[No_hair_left]

I use a Kef HTC 3001 SE as my center, and it's a seamless match with my 4 LS 50's. Cost me $125 on Ebay and I power it with a aiyima A07 which cost around $75. So I was able to add a center channel for $200. Because of it's shape, it also has a very low profile, so it fits under a lot of TV's right one the surface of the equipment cabinet, so it's firing from roughly the same level as the L-R. And since it has the coaxial driver, no problems with vertical off axis dispersion, as long as you keep things reasonable. I would urge anyone looking for a center to consider that speaker. It's great.

You have mixed kef with .................. kef though. I have not.