At double the price, it should be 2x as good!I wonder how much better the SVS Ultra Center measures than this...
Doesn’t look good probably doesn’t sound all that great either
Mostly we are reacting to the uneven on-axis response. As you observed, the 3-way design does enable pretty good horizontal dispersion. Add a sub and some EQ and you'll end up with an acceptable result. At a similar price, you may as well get something closer to "right" in the first place like the UC52.Could someone educate me why this looks so bad. Trying to learn here as I need to replace my old PSB center C40.
I guess I was looking mostly at the horizontal response and plots, which appeared pretty good, at least compared to the JBL 520C. As is, I am probably going to get the ELAC Uni-Fi 2.0 UC52 recommended, but would just like to understand why it is superior.
Agreed, I was too, as the most affordable 3 way centre. I would like to consider the KEF centres with concentric mid/tweeter but I don't like the grill-less look on those. I'm looking for a centre with good horizontal dispersion (out to 40-45 degrees).At double the price, it should be 2x as good!
I kid....but I do hope it's much better than these disappointing measurements.
I was strongly considering these in the past, but alas, without NFS spinorama, nothing is guaranteed, even if it's a 3-way.
Any thoughts on the Mono 365c? It has a higher Sensitivity.
Hey @MD_Squared, I was curious what your Dirac Live room correction did to your Prime Center? I currently have the Ultras as L&R, but need to change over my center. I was contemplating the Prime to save a few bucks, and plan to get a Dirac Live - enabled AVR this year.I have this as my center and was happy with it for a while (first real home heater system) but for the last several months I’ve have been bothered by problems with male dialogue sounding off. Not sure if it would be considered “boomy” or “shouty” or what but often seemed like the speaker was cupping hands around his mouth while talking. Tyrion Lannister and Jorah Mormont from Game of Thrones commonly caused this. My room is pretty well treated and I tried repositioning the speaker (fully forward on top of an open stand) and putting a thick acoustic panel behind it without success. I thought it might be a furniture resonance but taking it off the stand didn’t help much. I tried turning off Audyssey MultEQ and that seemed to make things sound a bit better but still wasn’t totally satisfied. Seeing this data makes me wonder if I was just hearing an uneven midrange all along.
It looks like EQ should work okay for the midrange, and I recently got a new receiver with Dirac Live so I’ll see if that can fix what Audyssey MultEQ could not.
On top of that, would stuffing the port(s) make any sense for me? Asking because it sounds like they contribute to some of the unevenness lower down.