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- From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
- Subject: Re: Poor college student seeks center speaker
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.042614.12905@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:26:14 GMT
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- jcm11@po.CWRU.Edu (John C. Mackey) writes:
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- >I darned near have my audio/video system complete (I just purchased a
- >Sony SLV-585HF Hi-Fi VCR to go along with my Sony STR-D1090 Pro-Logic
- >amp, Bose 301 II's {front L,R speakers) and old, cheapo Realistic
- >speakers {surround channel, needless to say})... anyway, all I really
- >need now is a good center channel speaker that will match fairly well
- >with the rest of my system.
- >As I said in the message subject, I'm not really loaded here (especially
- >after buying the receiver and VCR both within the past month). So, my
- >center speaker budget is about $200 or (hopefully) less. I know that
- >Kenwood makes a darned inexpensive center speaker ($129), and Infinity
- >makes one ($169) that would probably go quite well with the Bose speakers.
-
- >Does anybody have any thoughts on either of these speakers, or on any other
- >center speakers in the <$200 range? (My other option would be to purchase two
- >low-priced speakers and have a 6-speaker set up, but finding two reasonably
- >good speakers for <$200 total seems a little unlikely.)
- >Also, what kind of frequency response will I need for a center speaker? It
- >seems that the main output is just the vocal track. Would 60-20000Hz be
- >sufficient?
- >Thanks for your help once again, everybody!
- >--
- >John C. Mackey - Music Composition major at Cleveland Institute O' Music
- >-----------------
-
- You might also try the Polk CS-100. It retails for ~$170.
-
- -Cal
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