[Vintage-Audio] Re Speakers From Yesteryear

[Phil Lefever]

At 14:38 07/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>This
>channel handles primarily the voice output. You need several four inch=20
>speakers
>set up to disperse the audio throughout the room at about forty degree=
 angles.
>The four inch speaker is half way between a tweeter and a 'true' mid range
>speaker, and will handle the human voice nicely.

The center channel handles ALL the mono information in
the movie soundtrack, not just the voice! I was under
the same misconception that a small CC speaker would
do the job until recently I upgraded to a larger model.
The difference was amazing! I would consider the
minimum to be 2-6 1/2" drivers and a tweeter. Of course
it also helps to send the truly low frequencies to a
sub to remove the CC burden.

The other important issue is that the CC speaker needs
to be similar in response to the left and right front
speakers to make is seamless. Before I was using totally
mismatched speakers and it became apparent when I switched
to the new speaker.

I'll leave the use of 4" drivers to Bose who for some
reason still believes they have the better mousetrap ;)

73

Phil

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