Fostex as center in HT setup?

[Negas]

Almost 10 years later, I found the fe107e center channel by Fostex. I'm planning to build a center channel with some fostex driver.

 

[Bigun]

I had a Fostex centre once, it was super good on voices, just a simple FE127e

 

[chrisb]

The currently available models that would make sense in this application would be from the FF - WK series. Depending on the size of the room, probably the 105 or 125. Note that while the smaller drivers & enclosures that might be more convenient for the often constrained centre location - unless behind an acoustically transparent screen- the bass management in current HT processors can easily deal with that. I’m also a big proponent of trying to maintain common voicing / flavour across the full front row - in the case of FR families such as Fostex, Mark Audio, Tang Band, there are often a candidates in the next size class.

 

[planet10]

The 3 drivers mounted horizontally is not a good idea.

A simple reflex with FF105wk would do the job. 5 litres is near optimum.

dave

 

[jimk04]

Sorry to hijack but having just built a stereo pair full range with Faital 3fe22, would a centre speaker built to the same volume and port tuning integrate well?

 

[Bigun]

yes

 

[jimk04]

Thankyou

 

[Negas]

Thanks for the answers!

 

[paperix66]

It's ten years now that I'm using 2 FE127 BR boxes for my center channel (the simple BR fostex recommended enclosure) pair to 2 FE127 doubleBR (the other Fostex enclosure) and I'm very happy with this setup, voices are excellent and tonal balance makes you forget it's a multi-speaker setup