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Review 2 of 26
Price Paid:
$100.00
from www.ubid.com Summary: Absolutely wonderful.
I initially got myself a Yamaha HT5440 reciever. Hooked it up to my old Aiwa speakers and experienced bliss.
Then I relaized what would happen if i got some REAL speakers?
So I got a pair of IL30 speakers from Harmanaudio.
Amazing clarity of sound. My heart started skipping beats until I settled down.
Then I went hunting for a center channel.
The IL36c was too big for my room. so that was out of the question.
I then got an Entra center channel from circuit-city. Good sound, but did not amaze me with it's mid range. if kind of felt empty, not full...meek??
Then I saw a brand new IL25c on bid at www.ubid.com. Starting bid was 100.00.
I got it for 100.01. My lucky day.
so total cost of center channel = 100.00+25.00 = 125.00 Strengths: Beautiful mid range and nice lows, albeit not as low as the floor speakers, but is handles deep male voices beautifully. Check out the wwzz Jazz 106.1 FM. Beautiful.
Best part is the stand that comes on the back of the speaker. I actually put the speaker on the rear slope of my TV and supported it with the integrated stand.
So now the dialogues appear to come from the back of the screen which creates a cinematic soundstage. Weaknesses: Weakness?? it is strong to take on anybody as far as dialogues are concerned.
Don't expect rock music lows. The center channel is not designed for that. Anyway the floor standing speakers takes care of the low bass and since they are timbre matched, it is seamless. Similar Products Used: Infinity Entra center channel
Yamaha Center channel
Pioneer Center channel
Aiwa Center channel- is actually better than all of the above, save the entra.
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