Center Channel Please?

[Seth=L]

Hello folks, I am in need of advice on what center channel to get. I am on a budget (less than $250, hopefully much less) and want to timbre match as best as possible. I have NHT 1.5 bookshelf speakers for my front and they sport one 6.5" mid-bass and a 1" tweeter made of some metal (not sure of the material used). I may not be able to afford another NHT for a center as I have looked and found nothing in my price range.

My receiver is a Yamaha HTR-5890 and I listen to music very often. Though I usually listen to music in two channel I would like to have a musical center none the less. Many center channels I have listened to sound hollow to me, but I could be loosing my mind.

Thank you in advance for your help,

 

[j_garcia]

Aluminum, that is what NHTs tweeters have typically been.

I would wait and pick up a NHT center... Check www.audiogon.com and (ugh) eBay.

 

[Matt34]

There are a couple listings for NHT center channels here:

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/srch_fs.pl

 

[zumbo]

over budget. sorry
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4073004

LUCKY DAY!
http://www.onecall.com/ProductDetails.aspx?id=84645

 

[Seth=L]

I looked at the VC-2, it doesn't look like it would pair up with my NHTs, it looks to have polymer tweeters, though I am not sure.

I had been looking on Ebay and Audiogon for some used NHT center channels, namely the NHT Audio Center 1, AKA: AC-1.

I was wondering about maybe getting the Onyx center channel, even though it uses a different tweeter. I don't know what to do here.

 

[Seth=L]

Ha, Zumbo you posted just as I was, Thank you for the links.

 

[Seth=L]

The one for $200 is open box and I won't get paid till next week, it could sell sooner than I can conceivably order.

 

[zumbo]

I used to know a place that sold NHT and Earthquake subs cheap. But, my computer crashed a while back, and I lost my saved sites. I am Googling, but can't find it.

 

[allsop4now]

I used to know a place that sold NHT and Earthquake subs cheap. But, my computer crashed a while back, and I lost my saved sites. I am Googling, but can't find it.

Sorry, can't resist: Appropiate backup for your needs.

Very booooooring to do, but then you might avoid some unneeded excitement later on.

 

[zumbo]

Sorry, can't resist: Appropiate backup for your needs.

Very booooooring to do, but then you might avoid some unneeded excitement later on.

Is that going to cut into my AH time?

 

[zumbo]

Call Yawa. Great people. They may have the model you want, even though it's not on their site.

(888) 666-YAWA

 

[allsop4now]

Is that going to cut into my AH time?

Life is full of hard, brutal choices

 

[zumbo]

Found the place I was thinking of. Didn't see anything at the moment, but it's a good link to have. I have never purchased from them, but I have been looking at the site for about four years.

http://audiophileliquidator.com/index.php

 

[no. 5]

Found the place I was thinking of. Didn't see anything at the moment, but it's a good link to have. I have never purchased from them, but I have been looking at the site for about four years.

http://audiophileliquidator.com/index.php

I found them a few days ago, when I was looking for a place to buy Monitor Audio, and found the DALI's and RBH modles thay carry - I'm still giddy.

hay, Seth
what about a NHT bookshelf for a center?

 

[Seth=L]

Found the place I was thinking of. Didn't see anything at the moment, but it's a good link to have. I have never purchased from them, but I have been looking at the site for about four years.

http://audiophileliquidator.com/index.php

I can't get this site to work.

I even tried googling it and going to the site from there, oh well bad luck for me.

Using a sheilded bookshelf had occured to me, but 4.5" is to small and again different tweeters. Maybe an older Paradigm studio series center from ver. 1 or 2. They use a one inch aluminum dome tweeter.

 

[zumbo]

I can't get this site to work.

I even tried googling it and going to the site from there, oh well bad luck for me.

Using a sheilded bookshelf had occured to me, but 4.5" is to small and again different tweeters. Maybe an older Paradigm studio series center from ver. 1 or 2. They use a one inch aluminum dome tweeter.

For some reason it's acting-up. They have been around for a while though. I did find that they are not authorized to sell. Yawa and One Call are both authorized dealers. Pretty sure J&R is as well.

 

[no. 5]

what about a steel plate between the unshealded NHT 1.5 and the TV?

 

[zumbo]

NHT site states aluminum.

http://nhthifi.com/2006/products/ht/twoc.html

Authorized dealers through NHT:

http://nhthifi.com/2006/store-online.html

 

[Seth=L]

what about a steel plate between the unshealded NHT 1.5 and the TV?

Does that actually work?

 

[no. 5]

not shure eek: ) never had to try it. but the steel plate would be doing what the shelding in a speaker dose: blocking the magnetic field from the drivers.
I don't think it would have to be too thick of a plate, just wide and deep enough to block the field the speaker is creating (maby the same width and depth as the TV).