Hi everyone,
Ever wonder what a truly great center channel speaker can do for movies and High Def Surround Sound ?
I sure did, and after thinking about it long and hard, I decided that the best route was to do it myself.
Therefore I designed and built my own ESL based center. If you want all the gory details including dozens of build phase photos, read my thread on what I call the SL3-eXtreeme Center speaker.
This thread is to talk about the results and to share the good times (and I’m sure some challenges) around this new speaker.
First, now that it’s up and running, I’m simply amazed. I expected better than the Logos just based on sheer square footage of radiating surfaces and Line Array principles, but I was not prepared for the quality I’m hearing now.
As I sit here listening to the Sting ‘Sacred Love’ album in SACD, my jaw keeps hitting the keyboard …
Drum dynamics like I’ve never heard in my rig. The vocals (which are almost 100% anchored in the center channel) are now razor sharp, and they are the same volume as the L/R at ‘high’ (avg 90db) volumes.
That big Infinite Baffle is the bomb as well. It keeps up with the Martin Logans like nothing I’ve ever heard. Tight, accurate and ‘infinite’ in depth
Here’s the pic of the beast (note that the screen is removed in this shot).
Ever wonder what a truly great center channel speaker can do for movies and High Def Surround Sound ?
I sure did, and after thinking about it long and hard, I decided that the best route was to do it myself.
Therefore I designed and built my own ESL based center. If you want all the gory details including dozens of build phase photos, read my thread on what I call the SL3-eXtreeme Center speaker.
This thread is to talk about the results and to share the good times (and I’m sure some challenges) around this new speaker.
First, now that it’s up and running, I’m simply amazed. I expected better than the Logos just based on sheer square footage of radiating surfaces and Line Array principles, but I was not prepared for the quality I’m hearing now.
As I sit here listening to the Sting ‘Sacred Love’ album in SACD, my jaw keeps hitting the keyboard …
Drum dynamics like I’ve never heard in my rig. The vocals (which are almost 100% anchored in the center channel) are now razor sharp, and they are the same volume as the L/R at ‘high’ (avg 90db) volumes.
That big Infinite Baffle is the bomb as well. It keeps up with the Martin Logans like nothing I’ve ever heard. Tight, accurate and ‘infinite’ in depth
Here’s the pic of the beast (note that the screen is removed in this shot).