Monoprice THX-365C Center Channel Speaker Review (by Erin)

[SynthesisCinema]

Is there a teardown review of Monoprice Monolith THX-365C Ultra Center Channel Speaker?
I wonder what components went inside to make one of the better center speaker on the market.

The Monolith THX speakers use an 11-element crossover with some reasonably solid-looking components. Taking a peek at the crossover for the regular non-Atmos part of the speaker, we see two iron core inductors, three air-core inductors, two electrolytic capacitors, four film capacitors, and three largish resistors. Monoprice’s crossover spec claims fourth-order slopes, and the plethora of crossover elements plus the acoustically sealed drivers should be able to add up to such steep filters.

Monoprice Monolith THX-365T Mini-Tower and THX-365C Center Speaker Review

The Monolith THX-365T and 365C are some of the most inexpensive THX-Ultra certified home audio speakers to ever have been produced. How do they perform? Read on to find out.

www.audioholics.com

 

[Alice of Old Vincennes]

Monoprice Monolith THX-365T Mini-Tower and THX-365C Center Speaker Review

The Monolith THX-365T and 365C are some of the most inexpensive THX-Ultra certified home audio speakers to ever have been produced. How do they perform? Read on to find out.

www.audioholics.com

They use two 6.5” bass drivers, a 2” midrange dome, and a 1” dome tweeter.

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The 6.5” woofers use long-fiber pulp cones in stamped steel baskets with some chunky ¾” x 4” magnets in the motor. The midrange and tweeter use silk domes and are each housed in their own enclosed space in a plastic enclosure. The structure of the midrange is much more like that of a traditional dome tweeter on a larger scale rather than a usual midrange cone. All of the drivers use shorting rings which reduce even-order distortion as well as extending their operational bandwidth. The drivers are crossed over at 550 Hz and 1.9 kHz using fourth-order slopes.

Sounds cost cutting.

 

[ABall]

Looking to find something like this in 2025. I went to a colegues house yesterday to setup his new Cinima30, Ive never heard his system before. He has 5 Focal speakers and a 12 year old Dali sub. He says he had trouble hearing speach in movies on his old amp, it was an old Denon. After I setup his system I had a quick listen and found the centre quite boxy and muffled, not overly so but compared to my 365C, the focal centre is qiute small. I suggested I bring over my 365 and he said just send me a link to buy one. So here I am, I have been looking at Reddit and AVS with no joy in finding something, Ive also looked at Erins channel and he doesnt seem to have anything recent in this price range. Im tempted to recommend the KEF Reference 2 Meta which is a lot more expensive but before I do I thought I would ask here first as Im not looking for bull.

EDIT: Oh wait ive just seen 2 prices, Kef R2 meta 1299.00 Kef Reference 2 meta over 5k! I thought R2 was an abbreviation but it cant be.