Klipsch RP-504C Center Channel Speaker (Walnut)

I have been chasing the perfect center channel speaker for a long time. Sony, Boston Acoustic, ELAC etc. In varying degrees they were good and very good. Still, the dialog in movies or vocals in music were still thin, what best I can describe as papery. Then I purchased a pair of Klipsch Cornwalls. I had a wonderful sounding system before but now I was in high cotton. And now my latest center speaker--an ELAC, which was an excellent sounding speaker--really was missing the quality of the Cornwalls. The RP 504s really proved they are up for the challenge and stand up very well to the Cornwalls. Now the sound quality is seamless across the front. The movie dialog is finally is theater quality. The voices have depth and presence and stand out even with the competition from the Cornwalls in the front, Heresys as surround speakers and RP 600ms as height speakers. Lesson learned. The center channel speaker is critical especially for home theater. Dont skimp.

this one can be shipped to HK, nice

Very good speaker full sound very good bass nice mids good treble is expensive tho

This is a perfectly good center speaker and a significant improvement over our 25 year old Qef. If one is impressed by shear mass and driver quantity then this is for you. Better have a big, strong place to put it. Soundwise, the propaganda led me to think that I would be able to hear clear dialog again. Well, not so. It is significantly improved, but we are still turning on the subtitles frequently. Despite the huge size and cost, it is maybe 30-40% better than the old single speaker Qef. Since we have the space and I already bought the monster, we decided to keep it. As an experiment, we called our two twentysomething sons in to listen. They admitted to struggling with dialog as well. One begins to think the problem with hearing the spoken words may not be our ancient ears. Maybe the sound track has been so compressed by online services that fidelity is just crap, and no speaker can fix that. So it goes, already donated my 300 DVDs.

This speaker tries to do TOO much, is my diagnosis. It is large, four big woofers (large relative to most center channels) and the tractix horn.... and thus, all the effects and whatnot overwhelm and bury the dialogue into a recessed position. Yes, if you turn it up real loud you can hear everything, but then youre shaking the house... fine if thats what youre looking for. But what about just standard watching? Normal, lets watch a movie or tv show and be able to still have a conversation - type watching...? Then this speaker is not so good; indeed, youd be better off with two-channel stereo for music listening (or maybe just ditch the surround sound altogether, just sayin ) and a good clear-dialogue soundbar. For a $900 (or $650... or even $300) a center channel should be able to do it all instead of being one trick pony of crank-it-up-or-you-wont-understand-it type product.

Sound clarity and power

Paired with RP-8000s for the front and it sounds great!!

Im convinced that Klipsch is a discount brand disguising itself as premium. Sure they are on sale all the time - however, this center channel is so shrill! Dont bother. I sent it back. And I have expensive front speakers...wow these are just ear piercing.

This center channel brought my sound system back to life! So happy I made the purchase on this bad boy.

its what ive been missing for so long