good size speaker for 250 dollras

its not a good cc sppeaker

When i watch movies i hear funny noises and i thnink
mids were way to high. I cant understand all theeses
good reviews on this product.

Solid sound
high power handling
crystal clear

looks very ugly with the grille off but sounds better with it on anyway

This speaker is great. I have torture tested it with all types of movies and with music as well in 5 channel stereo on my Denon. It sounds crystal clear and even at high volume levels it did not falter.

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I took initialy CC-170 to my home theater system (yamaha 995 receiver and s-700 DVD). it was OK - until i've got live concert, recorded on DVD. sound wasn't clear enough, lows and mids weren't deep enough.i've changed it to CC-350 - wouldn't say that this a perfect speaker, but it's MUCH better (and more expensive), i'm pleased with it.

Just picked this up today. What a great center channel. Blends perfect with my Paradigm Mini Monitors. I think that the CC-350 is too big to stick upon my small 20" TV. The CC-170 fits perfect. I used to have a Bose, I know I heard enough, center. This new Paradigm Center is much better by about 5,000X. I wacthed Tomorrow Never Dies to test it out. And i heard everything and stuff I think that I was missing. The soundstage was really BIG. This is a great center if you are on a budget like me and don't have a huge TV to stick the CC-350 on.

Thanks Paradigm for showing me what I was missing all this time!!!

5 stars.

The build quality is great for 200 dollars. I loked in the port with a flashlight and saw the huge magnets on this thing. I am very happy :)

Great center speaker!

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This is an awesome center... blends well with my Mini Mon's... I would've gone for the larger sub, but i only have a 27" TV... The CC-370 is much larger!! I love this center though... I'd suggest it to anyone needing a good center for a good price.

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very clear sound.

none so far.

i just bought this center speaker for my existing paradigm phantom speakers and they are truly matched (which they should be). the dialogues in movies are clear and there is a seamless integration with the other paradigm performance series speakers. i will give 5 stars for this set of speakers (paradigm recommended speaker sets) not because i am trying to justify my purchase but it truly deserves this rating in my opinion.

Clarity and good bass for a Center channel.

None really! The larger CC-370 model has fuller range and is better match if you have the monitor series speakers for fronts.

This Center Channel is a great addition to anyones Home Theater with a budget. Provides clear vocals and bass. I've use this center channel along with Paradigm Mini Monitors for fronts without a subwoofer for 11 months now. (Just ordered the Paradigm PS-1200 for low frequency)
The bass is very nice from this center channel and I wouldn't hesitate to buy. If you have the space and extra cash go with the matching CC-370 instead. I give this a 5 star for value and 4 star for overall.

The best center channel for only $175. Voiced are focused at this unit. It has better bass then all in its price range. Great mediem priced speaker if you do not want to spend the $300 on the cc-350.

I recently bought the CC-170 as a centre speaker to use with my Paradigm Titans (Front left and right) and Micros (rear). For most of the last year, I had read how important it was to use a matching centre speaker and that 80% of the noise (in Home theatre) comes from the centre speaker. I knew I wanted one, but my budget said "wait".
Nonetheless, when I finally got the centre speaker, I was still surprised at hom much better the system sounded. All the cliches "seamless, wide sound stage" suddenly made perfect sense. I am very happy and agree with other reviewers that the Paradigm range is great value.

Other gear includes a Yamaha RXV 592 receiver, Yamaha CDC 665 CD player, and Sony SLV 827 Video. Still have not made the leap to Dolby Digital and DVD, but I feel that the Paradigm speakers will do quite nicely. Although, I am a wee bit concerned about the ability of the 592 and Micros to do justice to the full bandwidth of the Dolby Digital in the rear. Hopefully, a digital decoder which can recognise different size speakers will partly help out. Not sure what to do about the measly power of the 592 on the rears.

BTW I was very impressed with the Tannoy Mercury M2's and the matching centre but I got all the Paradigm stuff at good prices... Mostly second hand.

Recently I purchased a complete new system for music and video. Based on Paradigm Titans for fronts and surrounds, Paradigm SB-90 (passive sub) and the Yamaha RX-V795. I got a LD and a DVD. The idea was - movies with DD, music with DTS or CD. TV/VCR with Dolpy Pro Logic.
My main difficulty was selecting the center. Originally, I thought to buy the CC-170 as reviewes of the CC-150 (its predecessor) described it as a perfect match with the rest of my speakers (didn't find many reviews of the CC-170 at the time). I decided to take the CC-170. It was temporarily out of stock and I was given the LCR-150, which is an older model, no longer sold, but brand new in the interim, when the CC-170 was back in stock, I could take it home, audition it, and decide which one to keep.

Amazingly, the practically unreviewed, un-heard-of LCR-150 sounded MUCH BETTER than the CC-170. Much closer to the sound of the Titan v2. Although the CC-170 is supposedly timbre-matched with the Titans, it sounded very different, very distorted at the highs and mids. It was even painful during some dialogs.

Of course, I stayed with the LCR-150 and I don't understand any good reviewes of the CC-170.

I really like my system now, but the CC-170 was a painful attempt.

(Not regarding sound: the LCR-150 is in the same cabinet as the Titan v2 whereas the CC-170 is in a different enclosure... strange.)