Beginners Guide - Choosing The Right Center Channel Speaker

Beginners Guide - Choosing The Right Center Channel Speaker

My most important tips, when choosing the right center channel, for your home theater:

1.) Buy the center channel and then pick the TV stand. If you buy a TV stand that doesn’t accommodate the best center channel for your system, you will likely have to compromise on a center channel, which is the last speaker you should be compromising on.

If you already have a TV stand and the right center won’t fit, check out center channel stands, which would be a good solution for some.

2.) I believe the center channel is the single most important speaker in a home theater. Again, the experts say 50 - 70% of movie dialogue comes from the center channel speaker.

Most people should start with choosing the best center channel and then get the closest matching left and right speakers.

3.) Positioning - When trying to get the most out of your center channel, getting it properly positioned is critical.

Ideally, the center speaker should be as close to the screen as possible, this can either be above the screen or below. Get your center up off the floor!

Also, you want the center to be angled towards the main listening position (MLP) as possible.

Ideally, the center would be directly behind an acoustically transparent screen, like a movie theater, but like I mentioned, most of us normal folk don’t have that luxury, unfortunately.

3.) Budget Accordingly - If you have a $1,500 budget for your front 3 speakers, you don’t want to have 1,300 tied up in your L/R and only have $200 left for the center.

If you have $1,500 to spend on your front stage, it would be great to reserve $500 for each speaker.

4.) Keep the front three as close as possible, if you can’t have a matching LCR setup.

If you can’t have 3 matching speakers across the front, try to keep them in the same brand and series of speakers. Think Klipsch Reference Premier, Definitive Technology Mythos, Polk Monitor Series etc.

People call this choice timber matching. This will allow your receiver the best opportunity to send the same frequencies to each speaker. Luckily, with modern room correction, timber matching isn’t quite as important as it used to be. But it’s still important.

There’s some other pointers I could mention but those are the main points, when trying to choose the right center.

Thanks for watching, my friends!

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