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, from Richardson Summary:
I found this center channel to be amoung the best that I have trialed. Especially for the price!
I have found that using the Gladiator and MI2 DVDs as my consistent test software I have been able to easily narrow down the speakers, especially center channels, that I personally would want for my home theater system.
In the beginning of the Gladiator movie there is a scene where Russel Crowe is on horseback and addressing some of his warriors. During this scene I have found that MANY center channel speakers cannot produce anything other than a muffled or garbled presentation of the actors speech, with all of the background effects that are foleyed into that particular scene.
The second movie, MI2, includes another test that I like to call the dance test. In this movie, the scene in which Tom Cruise meets his "love interest" for this movie, they are in a room that has as cengter stage a raised wooden platform on which there are flaminco dancers, and spread in a circle around the stage are a number of peope who clap and talk along with the music and the dancers. What I listen for here is the crack of the dancers heals on the wooden platform. I want it to sound like wood. I want a sound that reporduces the hollow space under the stage and the echo of the sound in the room. At the same time I expect to hear the very clean and distict sound of the audience hands claping to the music. If either of these sound unnatural and I cannot determine what is causing the oddity to occur I consider that speaker as unacceptable for my personal taste.
Now, how do I feel about this speaker? It easily reproduced the sound as I felt it should sound. I had to turn down the subwoofer in the audition room, to get rid of an unnatural low frequency emphasis.
The center channel sounded great!
Strengths:
clean undestorted sound. passes russel crowe test Similar Products Used:
linn 5120, aerial acoustics, meridian 5000c
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