Center Channel Speakers Tips & Guide

Center Channel Speakers

By Rachman ray

Key to getting the best performance from your equipment and optimizing your enjoyment from films and television is understanding home theater center channel speakers.

Instructions

Step 1: you’ll want to be able to hear every word during loud and quiet sequences.

Step 2: very little music or sound effects carried by center channel speakers, come from the right and left speakers and subwoofer.

Step 3: If you want to make sure there are no spikes or dips in this range, look at the frequency response curve for a speaker. The frequency range for human speech is 500Hz-8kHz.

Step 4: if you don’t want a cheap amplifier trying to drive sound to a huge speaker and vice versa make sure your speaker is compatible with your amplifier.

Step 5: How well power will flow through the speaker tells by impedance. If power is “impeded”, the sound quality will be diminished. Purchase center channel speakers with an impedance rating of 6-8 ohms.

Step 6: Anything above 90 Db is best, higher sensitivity speakers are better. Anything below is going to take extra power to drive, and will put a strain on your amplifier.

Tips & Warnings

• Slight adjustments in positioning can drastically change the sound. Center your speaker on top or below your TV or projector and aim the sound at the listening area. Placement is key.
• A salesman is trying to sell you sounds you can’t even hear if he is touting frequencies above 20khz or below 20hz. In general, speakers other than subwoofers handle frequencies between 80Hz and 18kHz.
• Buy one really nice central channel speaker instead. It’s problematic to buy two central channel speakers, often they will just interfere with each other and the sound won’t be any better.

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