Happy to announce that my new speaker cabinet has been finished and I anxiously await delivery. To be honest, I hesitate calling it a center channel speaker anymore. In fact this is a high output satellite speaker that could be used in any of the 5 or 7 main speaker positions used in home theater.
I almost ordered 3 of them but I wanted to take delivery of one first and check that all the dimensions worked as expected. In addition to being my first speaker build in many years it's the first one that will use what I call Virtual Point Source technology. It's a combination of driver size selection, crossover slopes and delay setting which will have 95% of the benefits of a single driver, without the usual compromises in compression, distortion and frequency response issues single wide-band drivers have.
This is, arguably, also a counterpoint to the passive D'Appolito alignment. While those strive for controlled vertical dispersion these speakers absolutely do not. Go wide or go home.
To summarize, this is a 3-way active center channel with dual 7" woofers which will be a little larger than your average sound bar, but not nearly as large as similar designs from Legacy or ATC. Originally inspired by Troels Gravesen's center channel monsters. The three channel plate amplifier by Hypex will have the equivalent single amp output of around 1,000 Watts between the midrange and woofer sections alone.
