The center channel in a home theater setup is the center speaker designed to replace your television's front speakers for mid to high range dialogue. If you have no center channel, you may be able to use your television's speakers depending on the functionality of your audio receiver.
The center speaker in a home theater setup. It is generally placed immediately above or below a direct-view TV or behind the screen for a front projection TV. Ideally this speaker is placed on a horizontal line with the left and right channel speakers. Location of this speaker is critical as it produces 80% of the sound in a typical movie, including dialog.
The center channel speaker is used to produce the voices and dialogue in surround sound movies. This is commonly referred to as the most important speaker in a home theater system because it produces approximately 80% of all the sound heard in an average movie. In movie theaters, the center channel speakers are placed behind the screen, directly in front of the viewer. In a home setting it is preferable to have the center channel speaker either directly on top of, or directly below, your television. Note: In an ideal situation, your center channel speaker will be the exact same make and model as you right and left front speakers. As the very least it should be the sam brand as your right and left front speakers.
A channel driving a loudspeaker located mid-way between the front left and right loudspeakers. Does most of the work in movies and television audio, anchoring dialog to the screen. In multichannel music, the featured artist can have a private channel. Must sound as good as, and as similar as possible to, the left and right loudspeakers. It is not an inexpensive add-on! See: Channel.
The center channel speaker is used to produce the voices, dialogue, or any other sound effects the director mixes into it. In a home setting it is preferable to have the center channel speaker either directly on top of, or directly below, your television. It is important that the center channel is voice-matched to the front left and right speakers especially, if not also the rear left and right. This creates a seamless and convincing soundstage for movies.
In a multichannel audio system, the audio channel that carries information that will be reproduced by a speaker placed in the center of the viewing room between the left and right speakers. The center channel carries nearly all a film's dialog.
The center speaker in a home theater setup. Ideally placed within one or two feet above or below the horizontal plane of the left and right speakers and above or below the display device, unless placed behind a perforated screen. Placement is important, as voices and many effects in a multichannel mix come from this speaker.
A channel used to localize sound between the front left and front right speakers.
A speaker channel in surround sound systems. The Center channel is crucially important because it creates the illusion that the dialog is coming from the actors on the screen.
In home theater, sound decoded from the stereo signal sent to a speaker mounted in front of the listener, specially designed to enhance voices and sound effects from a movie soundtrack. Used in car audio to help offset skewed stereo imaging due to seating positions in the automotive environment.
Third front audio channel (in addition to main stereo left and right channels) found in surround sound audio systems with the primary task of reproducing movie dialogue (what the actors are saying) thus locking the voices to the screen for all listeners.
The front channel found in surround sound audio systems, that reproduces voices and dialogues.
A third front channel used to complement the front left and right stereo channels in a multichannel audio/video or surround sound system; its primary purpose is to stabilize the center of the reproduced soundstage for off-center listeners — which enables it to be the main channel for dialogue in movie soundtracks.
In a surround-sound system, the center channel is located directly in front of the user.
In A/V systems, this is the so-called "dialogue channel" that is located between the left and right main speakers. However, in most video applications, it does much more than reproduce dialogue. In audio-only recordings-which are given Dolby encoding-this channel can add central focus, particularly when you are sitting away from the central axis. While in the Pro Logic version it is derived" from the identical left and right signals, with Dolby Digital and DTS Digital Surround, the center channel is a discrete source. See also Dolby Digital; Dolby Pro Logic; DTS; Sweet spot.
