I dunno if it's true or not, but mine just arrived today and i wanna get this straight. I listen to music in 6 channel sometimes....someone told me they blew there center channel by playing loud music thru it (or it included).

Is that possible, should i never play loud music while in theatre mode or anything other than stereo?

 

A well matched center speaker will play as loud, hard as your right and left speakers, now if you have a cheap center channel you may want to limit the bass that goes to it. Just make sure it is secure on your tv or on the shelf, mine almost vibrated off when I had it pounding.

[ November 23, 2004, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: blue_id ]

 

ehhh....

well it's athena's top end as-f2 front speakers that i have, and their only center chanenl, i belieive it's the as-c1.

It's set to small thru the receiver as i never would expect much bass thru the center channel - but someone told me they once blew there's supposedly by playing music too loud thru the center (doesn't make sense to me, but what do i know)

 

I put 5 of those speakers through some very tough testing (one in each location) - and none of them blew. You should be just fine. Nice speaker btw.

 

Make sure you have some sort of bass management in your receiver turned on. Obviously you don't want to feed a full range signal to your center channel speaker. As long as its high-passed at 80-120hz (like car audio) it should be fine at whatever volume you listen to.

CM.


ps. Any home audio types reading this...I have a Sony SACD player FS, looking for $100+shipping.

 

I've never heard such a thing. I have played my music pretty loud and never once had any issue with center channel.

Which model of Athena is it? I keep frogetting to add ya to msn I am always sleeping or at work.

[ November 23, 2004, 11:45 PM: Message edited by: ChizzerZ24 ]

 

haha there is only one model of athena center channel.

system is as follows:

RECEIVER: Panasonic SA-XR50 (100x6 digital)
FRONTS: Athena AS-F2
CENTER: Athena AS-C1
REARS: crappy lil speakers i put there cause i could
SUB: Paradigm PW-2200

 

My bad, I haven't been on the site for awhile so wasn't sure if they came out with another yet. How does the center sound specially when listening to music?