Price Paid:  $80.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
I needed a center channel badly and Circuit City is very close to me, so I grab one of this Pioneer center channel.(Pioneer is #1 in car speakers to me) Sound great at the store with "Hell Freezes over", I wonder how much better it will be if I purchase a JBL that I have in mind (studio center channel II). So far this pioneer does the job well. Did you notice that one of the woofers is very quiet or produces no sound? I checked others in the store after I bough it, thinking it is a defect, but they all do that. Does yours too????

Strengths:
price

Weaknesses:
sound somewhat clashy

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none

Price Paid:  $80.00 from circuit city

Summary:
I picked this one up as a low price shielded speaker to complement my pioneer bookshelf S-H512B-K left and right channels. I tried it out with the DVD "The Others," a primarily dialogue driven film. It recreated the voices with a healthy dose of bass. Need to check it out on a film with higher pitched voices to see how well it fares. So far I am very satisfied with it, considering how inexpensive it was.

Strengths:
Good bass. Fits well on top of my TV.

Weaknesses:
It's supposed to be fully shielded, but I still get a slight color distortion with it sitting on top of my Toshiba 27" TV. I backed it up a bit from the front of the set, and the distortion went away. And yes, it looks like a big black brick.

Price Paid:  $79.00 from circuit city

Summary:
Tried it at the store and sound very good I should say excelent, and the price is a bargain. At home I realize that the left driver sends less output than the right one, I do ot know if this is normal in center channels or mine is defective, since both drivers look the same (woofers) and the speaker is called 2 way.?

Strengths:
Great sound great price great brand keeping good quality

Weaknesses:
none yet , but confused about the unequal output from drivers

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none

Price Paid:  $72.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
This center speaker includes two 5" bonded fiber woofers and a 1" P.C. tweeter. I produces excellent sound at a far less price than most other center-channel speakers I looked at, but at the cost of size: it's a bit bulky at 14"x6"x6". It is, however, solidly constructed (it feels an awful lot like a concrete block).

Oh, and I saved $7 on a typo. 8^)

Strengths:
Solid construction, magnetically shielded.

Weaknesses:
A little big.