Our design goals for our center were simple to detail yet difficult to achieve. We required linear and wide on- and off-axis response, natural sounding vocals, realistic dynamics with impact, and seamless integration with our left/right loudspeakers.

After 2 full years of intense engineering, we were finally ready to introduce a center channel accurate enough to call our own...

The heart of our new 340 SE center is its advanced bi-wireable crossover featuring EXBAC. EXBAC is our coined term for Extended Baffle Compensation, resulting in natural and full sounding vocals free of typical honkiness and thinness.

EXBAC Defined: the front baffle of a loudspeaker creates diffraction losses as longer (lower frequency) sound waves travel along the surface of the front baffle rather then beam forward. This creates problems because these lower frequencies (usually located in the critical midrange response) are 6dB down from the higher frequencies which beam forward. Placing a loudspeaker on top of a TV amplifies these problems by effectively increasing the size of the front baffle, thus creating an effect where vocals can sound nasal and thin. Our EXBAC circuit actually compensates from these losses resulting in an incredibly clean and natural sounding midrange, even when the speaker is placed atop a TV.

Furthermore, we used only the finest crossover materials including polyester-film bypass capacitors, air-core inductors and gold plated binding posts.