The 10 Best Front Center Surround Speakers (2023 reviews)

We consider a front center surround speaker to be a worthy investment in the long run. We are here to help you choose the right one for your needs from all the best available products in market today.

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Best Overall: Buy: Klipsch Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For smooth undistorted Bass: Buy: Polk Audio Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For Clear Dialogue: Buy: Yamaha Audio Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For average Surround Sound: Buy: Polk Audio Good Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For car: Buy: JBL Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For TV: Buy: Definitive Technology Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For Large Room: Buy: Fluance Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For Home Sound System: Buy: Yamaha Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For Home theatre: Buy: SVS Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best Feature: Easy To install: Buy: OSD Audio Front Center Surround Speaker READ REVIEW

Best Overall: Klipsch Front Center Surround Speaker

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If you often find yourself confused about good speaker, klipsch front center surround speaker is your solution. This little Klipsch puts out a cleaner, better sound than the big clunker. It is good for any medium sized room so long as you have a quality sub to handle the low end. It's not designed to serve as a stand but it is flat on top and has sturdy construction. The speaker tones match well.

The treble detail and depth of bass is amazing. It's low range is 88 Hz. There are a nice cloth cover with the Klipsch logo at the top. The sound is clean and efficient even at low volumes.

• Best value and unrated center speaker
• Love the natural sound of the voice and general soundtracks
• Good looking and decent sounding center speaker

Best For smooth undistorted Bass: Polk Audio Front Center Surround Speaker

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The Polo Audio es35 center channel speaker is a passive speaker and requires an amplifier or av receiver to function. It features a dynamically balanced acoustic array with cascading crossovers, a 1" terylene tweeter and (6) 3" woofers that deliver room-filling, crystal clear sound in a life-like soundstage. Bass travels through the air like butter and the rich mids and highs compliment just about any sound you throw at it.

The Elite speakers have an excellent, broad sound stage, and the subtle of a plucking guitar really allow you to hear the 'bite' of the guitar string. It has rear speakers that fire upward as well as surround, and the front actually have speakers that respond to dolby atmos and move upward and downward to produce sound above and below. Bass and treble are both set flat on the receiver and they sound just perfect. The Signature Elite builds on the incredibly strong Signature platform and meticulously re-engineers it to maximize high-resolution audio capabilities as well as cinematic experiences for music and movie lovers alike.

It comes with polk's patented power port technology, the es35 center channel gives you a dramatic frontal impact and carries almost 75 percent of the audio so you get louder, lower, and cleaner bass, distortion free. They are great speakers very clear and pretty good in all regions for minis and theatre.

• Very sharp, crystal clear sound, incredible punch
• Solid build and great exterior finish
• Adds sparkle and clarity as a center channel to existing 2-channel setup
• Great dynamic range and super bass

Best For Clear Dialogue: Yamaha Audio Front Center Surround Speaker

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This Yamaha center channel speaker works perfectly without breaking the bank. It has a nice "warm" sound to the speaker with good power/volume capability. It is great for dialogue, adds depth to the midrange. The mids are crisp and clear and dialog bass is precise. You can add this center speaker to just about any surround sound system and hook it up to your TV.

This speaker is amazing for movies and music and the sound quality is very crisp and clear as you can hear in the video. It is a great size and the vocals are clear enough to compete with strong surround sound speakers and a subwoofer. This is a great little speaker.

• Trebles, mids, and bass you need speakers to handle the separate sets of frequencies
• Dialogue is crisp with plenty of volume available
• Excellent addition to home media setup
• Excellent sound as a replacement center speaker clear voice tracks

Best For average Surround Sound: Polk Audio Good Speaker

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The polk audio good speaker's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. It is not a sound powerhouse but is ok as a center speaker for dialogue. It fits perfect on the mantel or anywhere with limited space or room. It features a power port that is designed for bigger, more efficient, deep bass impact, and enables better blending with a subwoofer. It's very light and the 1/4"-20 threaded insert on the rear makes it easy to fabricate a "custom" $3 mount with a carriage bolt, a pipe bracket, and a hose clamp.

The speaker is easy to set up and install and works great. No matter how you choose to set it up, the center channel easily connects to a receiver, just like any other speaker.

• Sound quality is impressive for such a low profile center channel speaker
• Clear sound, low profile size, perfect for dialogue
• Perfect fit for the samsung 55 inch flact screen with the chrome legs

Best For car: JBL Front Center Surround Speaker

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If you often find yourself scrambling for appropriate and satisfactory speaker, jbl front center surround speaker is your end point. A full surround sound home theater/stereo system can be set up using other speakers in the JBL Stage series. It can be used as a center speaker in your yamaha tsr. It has 6 3” speakers and a tweeter. It can handle up to 150 watts. Compared to the Klipsh R-34C (which is excellent) the JBL is less loud and softer. It is designed for home theatre setup. It is a center channel speaker only, not a sound bar. It is set up to be wall mountable as well.

• 6 x 3" (76mm) polycellulose low-frequency woofer
• Very nice definition, and the dialogues are clear
• Hooks up with just 2 wires from avr
• Looks good, good build quality, audio and dialogue are clear

Best For TV: Definitive Technology Front Center Surround Speaker

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We would, of course, be remiss if we didn't mention definitive technology front center surround speaker for regular usage. This speaker produces clear and discernible dialogue. It is good clarity for speech as a center speaker. It is a high end and completes a full def tech 7 speaker sound system which is the best. It is voice-matched with definitive's complete procinema series, and can be paired with any surround or subwoofer in that series for a complete procinema hi-fi sound system. The speakers blend perfectly and the ProCenter really does its job and pulls the whole system together. The room just fills with spectacular, accurate sound that is never strained or strident, even at pretty appreciable levels.

• Crisp, clear highs and distinct voice dialogue
• Aesthetically looks great too with the high gloss aluminum cabinet
• Produces a warm sound with even tones
• Great center channel speaker that is plasma tv/wall mount friendly

Best For Large Room: Fluance Front Center Surround Speaker

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Fluance has been making great speaker for years, thanks to a combination of clever design and appropriate materials. The signature series center speaker is a balanced mid and high for vocals a must have for your music and tv. It is crafted with engineered wood to create a warm, distortion-free sound and creates a much more immersive experience. Even the foam in the box is cut precisely and packaged with a perfect fit, inside a box in a box. The sides of the cabinet have a nice black simulated wood grain and the front of the speaker is a high-gloss black.

As others have said, this really ties everything together and adds clarity to dialogue and creates a much more immersive experience. It comes with a cover that can be easily removed very impressed with the speaker high quality. The clarity of the voices in both music and audio from movies is very good.

• Solid construction to reduce resonance and big magnets in the tweeters
• Great sounding speaker right out of the box
• Volume goes as high as any normal person would want while still sounding good

Best For Home Sound System: Yamaha Front Center Surround Speaker

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These three speakers fit in super nice with the surround sound. They are wired speakers so you have to run wires to the back of the room if you want them for rears. The mid (voice range) frequencies are not heard very well to function as main speakers. The back of the speakers is the Speaker Wire. There are brackets in the back of the speakers for wall mounting. It is great for a home sound system.

The speakers are a 100 watts unless you have a bigger receiver over 100 watts this is all you need. It can be used as surround speakers.

• Good sound for mid priced spkrs
• Great little speaker package to round out your 5.1 or 7.2 system
• Center and surround speaker package finished in a high gloss piano finish
• Love the sound no cracking when turned up

Best For Home theatre: SVS Front Center Surround Speaker

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The size ( or volume) of a speaker system enclosure is a function of the acoustic parameters of the woofer(s) and their ability to reproduce bass frequencies. It delivers crystal clear and natural sounding dialogue and vocals with an expansive soundstage, stunning dynamics and excellent dispersion for a convincing home theater surround sound experience. The Prime Center and Ultra Center have vertically aligned midrange and tweeter to eliminate off-axis comb filtering and lobing in the critical midrange frequencies. It provides high spl, minimal distortion, and a sense of utter transparency.

It is a passive speaker and must be hooked to an receiver or amplifier via speaker cable. It requires a wired connection using speaker cable to the center channel speaker output of an AV Receiver. They can take a lot of power behind them too and they sound great. It is good as it gets for a center channel speaker.

• Sound is outstanding, build quality is great, and finish looks wonderful
• Small enough to fit into most home theater cabinets
• Good investment for long term

Best Feature: Easy To install: OSD Audio Front Center Surround Speaker

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If you want to build your dream home theater system without breaking the bank, the iw525 is the perfect lcr speaker. This speaker is easy to install, the grate is easy to get on and off (but is snug when in place), and the speaker sounds fantastic. It includes a dog-ear bracket system to mount securely to the sheet-rock. It can be painted to appear flush with your home furnishings.

The saving speaker has a trimless grille for a low profile that blends with the decor of any room when mounted in a wall. The wall center speaker is easy to install and is compatible with the existing speakers that are all ready to install. Whether you're throwing a party, watching movies with your family, or enjoying music alone, you'll be amazed by the clarity and depth this speaker can produce.

• Good clean sound in an inexpensive package
• Great sound and better than expected bass
• Painted grills to match painted stucco for outside use
• Look and sound like speakers 3-4 times the cost