Proficient CC525 center channel speaker - is it any good?

[lavallee]

Hi All,

I am slowly building my HT system and recently upgraded my receiver to an Integra DTR9.9 (from an Onkyo TX-NR616). I currently have 'ok' speakers that I purchased used, and my center channel speaker was thrown in 'as a freebie' to make the deal. It is JBL N-Center and it sounds like a substandard speaker; especially after upgrading the receiver. It sounds TERRIBLE!

I have a chance to by a Proficient CC525 for $40 dollars and I wonder if it's worth it as an upgrade (even if I get something better down the road).

Of note: the Proficient weighs 21 pounds vs. the JBL at < 10 pounds.

Any thoughts on the Proficient? myMy concern is that I might get it, and not notice any real benefit.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and suggestions.

All the best

 

[Hybrid fourdoor]

I’d go for it. Price is low enough to not worry. Gives you something new to try. I haven’t heard of the brand, but it doesn’t appear to be a fake brand.

Center channels have always been kind of blah to me. I’ve never been blown away by s Center channel in the way the front channels can.

 

[cyberstudio]

I have never heard it or heard of it. But $40? Go for it.

Judging from the picture, it is in the minority of configuring a center channel right. These are the right ways to configure a center:

1. Coaxial
2. Tweeter on top woofer at bottom, or the other way around.
3. A 3-way, where the tweeter is on top and the midrange at the bottom (or the other way around), and 2 woofers flank them. (Which is the speaker the OP is looking at.)
4. An ordinary speaker in the vertical orientation behind an acoustically transparent projection screen.

These are the WRONG ways to configure a center channel

1. MTM sideways - MTMs are supposed to be VERTICAL and it is WRONG to lie them horizontally.
2. WMTMW sideways, wrong for the same reason.

 

[planet10]

5. A FR speaker

dave