Center speaker into SF system

[weinstro]

Hello,

I'm trying to build a decent quality multi-channel system.

Fronts are Sonus Faber Signums. Rears are Sonus Faber Concertinos. I'd like to consider building something for the center channel. Looking over the kits offered by Madisound or others, what would blend well?

Thanks and regards,

Rob

[Landroval]

Raah, destroyed my message...

The famous and highly regarded Italian speaker manufacturer, Sonus Faber, were showing two new speakers. Seen above is their new Signum (3,250,000 Lira) two-way, bi-wireable rear ported speaker. The Signum uses a 6db/octave crossover @ 2.5kHz, 20mm silk dome tweeter, 150mm fiber glass multicoated cone mid/woofer, and rated at 86db/w/m sensitivity. Individual struts of solid walnut are used for the outside while lead and copper parts are used inside for resonant control. Frequency response is clamed from 40Hz-20kHz.

Do something as close as possible to the Signums. No three-way or anything like that.

These might work just fine:
http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/W1500_97.htm
http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/W1501_95.htm
http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/HDS134_DX.htm
( http://www.madisound.com/vifastudio.html )

Gotta love Troels' designs.

[weinstro]

Originally posted by Landroval
Do something as close as possible to the Signums. No three-way or anything like that.

These might work just fine:
http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/W1500_97.htm
http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/W1501_95.htm
http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/HDS134_DX.htm
( http://www.madisound.com/vifastudio.html )

Gotta love Troels' designs.

Those are interesting designs, all right.

Sonus Faber prefers first order cross overs. Most of the MTM designs I've looked at for a center channel have higher order networks. Is this a real concern for purposes of integration?

What do you think of the Lynn Olson's ME2 or SEAS Froy? The latter looks good on paper, and there's a favorable test report in AudioXpress.

Any idea if these would integrate well with Sonus Faber?

Thanks and regards,

Rob Weinstock

[jimbo1968]

Are you sure you want a centre? If you have phantom centre mode and your screen is between your mains, there is really very little point, and it will most likely sound worse.