My Center, 50 lbs and 1,000 Watts

Eric,

Chapeau bas, as the French say. Such audio craftsmanship lends a lot of weight to your posts on this forum—like the added authority a wine maker can bring to a tasting. I always read your posts with interest.

@snilf

Thank you so much.  😁

Not that there’s really an apt center to compare this to (or not many anyway), but it’d be interesting for frame of reference how it compares to something we can somewhat relate to as a benchmark.

@soix Honestly I wish I had the cash to do that kind of comparison test. :D

I would love to see how well my center would integrate with Magico, Wilson and Martin Logan speakers though.

I can tell you that my current, modest 2-way center with inexpensive 5" woofers doesn’t do too bad in it’s limits. Room acoustics and room correction do a lot to make that little center shine.

My current HTR doesn’t let me tune the DSP settings directly, so I could not achieve the same level of integration that I could when I had a stack of miniDSP units and controlled it all myself. This, and not wanting to have more devices was a major reason for trying this. The other two areas were dynamic range and limited seating area. I also wanted to attempt a really wide dispersion pattern.

When I saw the physically large centers from Troels Gravesen it sparked my imagination.

Sorry I made a math error. The amp is only about 600 Watts, not 1,000.

Also, here is a picture of the speaker on my rack. I think my next upgrade has to be a bigger TV, no?

https://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-center-at-scale.html

I still need to configure the drivers, and that's a place where the Topping DAC with the bluetooth receiver is really going to be useful. :D