RE: Do you need a great center channel??

Posted by dbphd (A) on October 28, 2010 at 11:57:05

In Reply to: Do you need a great center channel?? posted by jazz1 on October 26, 2010 at 08:12:17:

I've been listening with and without the center channel activated for several weeks, and find it difficult to tell whether the center is on or not, unless I put my head right in front of the center speaker to assure myself it's active or not. We sit at the apex of an equilateral triangle with 8.5' legs and KEF Reference 104.2 mains at the other apexes; the center channel is a KEF 200 C; a Velodyne HGS-15 with SMS-1 room equalization takes frequencies below 80 Hz. Voices seem equally well localized with either films or TV programs, and it's only with Blu-ray operas that I have a preference for deactivating the center channel -- the 200 C seems not quite up to the 104.2s, and uses a Uni-Q tweeter whereas the 104.2s use a dome tweeter.

Bottom line, the answer to OP's question is not obvious, but likely no for some applications. I've never tried to take a 104.2 apart, but it looks as though the D'Appolito assembly that seems to hang on the front might be a separate unit; if I had one of those assemblies for my center channel, my answer might be different. Now if I could only find a 104.2 with a trashed woofer set . . .

db

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Topic - Do you need a great center channel?? - jazz1 08:12:17 10/26/10 (23)

RE: Do you need a great center channel?? - Mag 13:53:47 10/31/10 (0)

RE: Do you need a great center channel?? - dbphd 11:57:05 10/28/10 (0)

Ewwwww - badman 11:30:12 10/28/10 (0)

I find the center channel for HT is very important - Steyr 07:00:56 10/28/10 (0)

Here's a crazy idea. - Presto 12:13:59 10/27/10 (1)

I appreciate the implicit humor but......................... - Kal Rubinson 15:55:40 10/27/10 (0)

RE: Do you need a great center channel?? - tomservo 06:55:11 10/27/10 (3)

what about listening off axis - Steyr 07:02:37 10/28/10 (0)

RE: Do you need a great center channel?? - Kal Rubinson 15:53:26 10/27/10 (0)

RE: Do you need a great center channel?? - Hi-Fidelity 11:21:48 10/27/10 (0)

I assume you are asking about for Hi-Rez music and not HT - Robert C. Lang 15:20:57 10/26/10 (10)

not really!!! - jazz1 23:30:04 10/26/10 (9)

Not really!!! - Kal Rubinson 06:16:22 10/27/10 (7)

RE: Not really!!! - jazz1 06:29:31 10/27/10 (6)

Exactly!!! - Kal Rubinson 09:09:38 10/27/10 (4)

RE: Exactly!!! - goblin141 06:33:04 10/30/10 (3)

?????? - Kal Rubinson 06:42:20 10/30/10 (2)

Sorry - goblin141 09:21:05 10/30/10 (1)

RE: Sorry - Kal Rubinson 14:55:03 10/30/10 (0)

RE: Not really!!! - JimL 08:17:06 10/27/10 (0)

RE: not really!!! - Robert C. Lang 23:57:54 10/26/10 (0)

Nope... - BigguyinATL 11:51:32 10/26/10 (1)

RE: Nope... - IEaudiodude 10:44:48 10/27/10 (0)

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