Dayton Audio CCS-33B 3-3/4" 3-Way Center Channel Speaker Black

Excellent speaker at a great price.

I'm impressed with the quality of this speaker. Works perfectly in my 5.1 setup. TV mounted in a large cubby of sorts which allowed me to install directly behind the bottom of the TV so the speaker is out of site (but still ear level when seated watching the TV). Since I had the room, size of this speaker not a problem and the fact it has mounting bracket included is a major plus. Super easy to install! Sounds great! Sounds as good as my Bose VCS-10 used elsewhere. I was surprised.

This is a really nice sounding center channel speaker. I decided to put my basement den to use with a third A/V setup. I had some great old Tannoy speakers for the fronts, some old RCA outdoor speakers for the rears, and I added a Yamaha YST-SW216BL subwoofer, hooked up to an old Tecnics SA-DX1050 and a new LG 50PN6500. I hooked up a Sony BDP-1100 to the tv via hdmi, and used the digital optical out from the tv to the Tecnics. This produces Dolby Pro Logic 5.1. Also hooked a Xbox 360 to the tv via hdmi and also get 5.1, and of course when watching tv on the lg also get dolby 5.1. This speaker totally fit the bill for the center channel. It sounds great, and you can't beat the price. I did not use the wall mount so cannot comment on that.

The build of this center channel is great. The sounds that come out are crispy and clean. I love the dual 4 inch midwoofers with a 1 inch tweeter and the super Piezo tweeter. It add great sound at low volume and at loud volume it sounds better. The build structure of it is very well-made. Love the terminals on the speaker they used to so you can use banana plugs if you want something a little bit more. I like the curved look of the speaker. Give more of a aesthetic to it and as well sound distribution. For me one of the best center channel speaker made right now.

I've got a pretty mismatched 5.1 setup built mainly from speakers I picked up at the thrift store. Apart from the subwoofer ($100) I didn't spend more than $5 on a single speaker. I bought the Dayton to replace a very muffled center channel speaker since it may be the single most important speaker in the set if you don't want to have subtitles on all the time. While I am not blown away by the sound, it works and seems to fit my home theater well!I give it 4 stars because it suits my needs and I am satisfied, but I know full-well that I am not getting the kind of fidelity I would get with more expensive equipment. If you are looking for a good center channel speaker at a low price I don't see any reason not to get this one.

Wow! The angled, 3-speaker design gives the center a more realistic, multi-directional sound that has a dimensional quality which it projects with clarity and definition.You know, I wonder if there are families and friends out there yelling "Shotgun!" just to get that perfect center position on the couch in front of those uni-directional center channel speakers. Oh, and don't tell the manufacturer or the retailers but I would have paid more for what my ears have received.

Clean, clear sound without overtaking or matching the side speakers. If I had known Dayton Audio had so many great speakers I would have just bought a recieved and Dayton Audio speakers rather than a set that came with the reciever. Huge upgrade and not a huge price.

Bought this center channel based on price, reviews and size/weight thinking it would be easy to mount and sound acceptable w/ other components in my system (Polk towers for fronts, Polk bookshelfs, Insignia Bookshelfs, Sony High powered ES class receiver..) the main plus to this speaker is it's light and wall mountable.Negatives: the bracket that came with it is less than user friendly when it comes to mounting properly, no access holes in it to get a good hole alignment when drilling/punching drywall holes so you got to be a little bit of a layout artist and hope for the best.... and have proper size wall anchors and uncommonly big headed screws (not supplied..) which i happened to have just enough of. for the size/weight of the speaker i can't complain on sound, if your system is anything like mine though i would suggest you look for a center upwards of $100 price range though and if you have to wall mount, find a solution to make it work and move forward, i'm not one that thinks every speaker in your home theater has to be from the same brand, that's ridiculous, any receiver worth keeping has adjustments (distance, spkr size etc..) to let you get spkrs tuned in to the others as long as they are comparable in size, sound and quality. Owning a smaller (under-matched) center makes me wonder what having a big center w/ smaller towers and med. bkshelfs w/ sub would sound like, probably pretty good (when running in 5.1 / 7.1) and yes as one would think of a center this size, you get no bass to speak of despite product description claims.