Betelgeus:
Unless you are also using a "full range" pair of stereo speakers (meaning that these speakers must be capable of putting out some bass also (something in the upper 20 Hz. to about 40 Hz.)) as your main channels, the center channel doesn't need have deep bass capabilty. What the center channel speaker is used for in a home theater is to carry the a huge weight of the dialog that's encoded into the movie itself, and that's it. Things like helicopter engines, thunderstorms, explosions, car crashes and other sounds like them (with regard to rumbling room shaking deep bass) should be handled by a subwoofer. Bass frequencies are unidirectional in nature and they have no sense of direction when it comes to the soundtracks in movies. They're there if they are there. If not, then, I guess they aren't there to begin with.
I just put in another opinion in the ring. I hope I was just as helpful as the other two poster before me.
--Charles--
Unless you are also using a "full range" pair of stereo speakers (meaning that these speakers must be capable of putting out some bass also (something in the upper 20 Hz. to about 40 Hz.)) as your main channels, the center channel doesn't need have deep bass capabilty. What the center channel speaker is used for in a home theater is to carry the a huge weight of the dialog that's encoded into the movie itself, and that's it. Things like helicopter engines, thunderstorms, explosions, car crashes and other sounds like them (with regard to rumbling room shaking deep bass) should be handled by a subwoofer. Bass frequencies are unidirectional in nature and they have no sense of direction when it comes to the soundtracks in movies. They're there if they are there. If not, then, I guess they aren't there to begin with.
I just put in another opinion in the ring. I hope I was just as helpful as the other two poster before me.
--Charles--