For a music system the center channel speaker is most important, and should equal or exceed the performance of the others. However, for movies, the center channel is used for dialog, and dialog is more intelegible from a speaker with relatively narrow bandwidth, in particular reduced low bass, which makes male voices "boomy".
Center channel question?
Does anyone know if there is a practice of limiting the low frequency sent to the center channel from the mixing process? I ask because I see alot of high end center channel speakers that dont go down below 40 cycles, and these are sold in packages with up to 6 matching towers for home theater, so I started to wonder why sell 6 speakers that can dip to 20HZ or below and when it comes to the center make it so "light weight" compared to the others? Is this because material sent to the center typically does not require it? I know it is not because of size because some of these speakers are very large and can be fitted with any driver and cross-over of choice.
Please dont say it is because of the THX 80hz rule because these manufacture's would not be packaging 6 towers with full range performance in the system had that been the case. thanks
Please dont say it is because of the THX 80hz rule because these manufacture's would not be packaging 6 towers with full range performance in the system had that been the case. thanks