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In Reply to: Do not be tempted with a cheap centre channel posted by John C. - Aussie on March 05, 2001 at 18:50:02:
these 5.1 mixes and plain dolby surround (matrix) are important, and often almost wholly collapse with majority of sound directed to center and if your speakers or cable is not up to snuff (lower quality, mismatched) then prepare for dissatisfaction. sage advice is to go with equal or higher quality in choice of speaker, cables and interconnect. and then try to optimally orient/decouple(Bluetack?)speaker from monitor housing and its screen reflections to eliminate the "cupped hands around mouth" megaphone effect that colors sound of typical home theatre. (even self stick green felt - from home depot - around inside edge of removabll speaker baffle can transform it by reducing first reflection) the result is above-average, organic multi channel presentation, freed from center channel anomalies.
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Why is a center channel speaker $315, when a pair of essentially similar boxes costs $350 total???
integration:it's harder to sonically match the center to other channels due to usual intended placement. also one usually must adopt a complimentary rather than identical configuration due to specific requirements/duties of center in a home theater array. often unique shielding technologies come into play with the center channel as well. despite these challenges, one needs a near-identical sonic signature to the front main speakers. add the big factor of needing to build to a price point it's not surprising that you find a afterthought approach that occurs in many product lines, even with higher center channel prices. and it's just as hard to slap together a copy of someone else's design if you want it to have a near identical sonic signature to your fronts, and of course you do.
somehow i deleted this in my first post since this forum doesn't allow editing.
Don't know if you're familiar with the KEFs, but they feature a Uni-Q driver that integrates a mid/bass unit with a tweeter in the center using the same magnet. So this unit (assuming same xover & internal wiring is used) is going to sound pretty much the same, barring some funky cabinetry that's either way too big, too small, or ported in some strange way.So what I'm still trying to answer is why a unit with only 1 of everything costs, according to my calculations, 90% of what a pair costs. I'm scratching my head over this one . . .
no direct help - i haven't listened to them, but probably did read about the product line in one of the magazines, probably some center channel head-to-head comparision. have you tried finding any reviews online? and by all means listen to it before commiting, and with music. i find center channels are easy to evaluate, since most often they are colored due to the ubiquitous d'apollito (sp?) driver configuration that results in design-induced compromises that usually are not engineered out of the box. with yours, perhaps its singular design means higher center channel sound quality. i bet it even has a reputation and that, together with R&D, leads to price differential. i haven't tuned in to center channel speakers for some years but my fuzzy memory may nudge someone else to attest for the speaker. point source technology. i think it may well be an overachiever despite price. hopefully someone else will ring in on this
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