Center channel speaker which excels at dialogue


I am looking for a center channel speaker (up to about US$300) which is strong in the area of dialogue intelligibility and clarity. I read somewhere that some speakers are good at projecting effects and ambient details but not so good with dialogue. I place higher priority on dialogue so could I have your recommendations please.

Thanks in advance.
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Showing 1 response by waldoworks

You have some homework cut out for you. The first is decent and $300. You may have to raise the bar slighly as very few dedicated center channel speakers show up on AudiogoN. Ya gits whatcha pay fo' especially at the mid-price ranges, (diminishing returns factor in at the extreme high price end). Second is time and timbre matching, and don't kid yourself, it is a huge factor as the sum of your parts become greater than the whole as an integrated speaker array. Your last post mentioned the Maggies - extremely fast with with many timbral nuances that might not even mate well with an elecrostat like ML's (a guess - they may), but certainly not a dynamic speaker or a horn. Try reposting your question with your mains (and sub?) mentioned an see what kind of responses you get.

alan