A quality center speaker is essential to any home theater. Poorly designed center speakers can make dialogue hard to heard, leaving users to adjust the volume up and down throughout a movie in order to understand what actors are saying. And a center speaker that isn't timbre matched with the front left/right speakers can make pans across the soundstage seem disjointed. As such, it's best to review a center speaker on its own merit, and also as a part of a matching speaker system. During our review of the Boston Acoustics A360 floorstanding loudspeakers, we had a chance to review the matching center speaker as well, the A225C. This is a smooth sounding center channel with very good build quality and great looks, similar to the A360's. Although there are a few limitations, this center channel delivers a great balance of form and function at a reasonable price point. Read on to see what we liked, and what some of the limitations are.
2-way ported speaker
5 ¼ ” Ceramic/Glass Fiber Polymer Woofers
1” Kortec Soft Dome Tweeter
175 Watt Power Handling
Frequency Response: 65Hz to 25kHz
Sensitivity (2.83V): 89 dB
Impedance: 8 ohms
Xover Frequency: 2.6kHz
Dimensions: 5.3” H x 16”W x 8.9” D
Weight: 15.4 lbs
