The 10 Best High end Center Speakers (2023 reviews)

We consider a high end center 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 Excellent Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For Voice Clarity: Buy: Klipsch High end Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For average Surround Sound: Buy: Polk Audio High end Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For Other Speakers: Buy: Yamaha Audio High end Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best With Stereo amplifiers: Buy: Elac High end Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For An above average Speaker: Buy: Definitive Technology High end Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For car: Buy: Cerwin-Vega High end Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best With nearly All AV receivers: Buy: Elac Great Speaker READ REVIEW

Best sounding Speaker Array: Buy: SVS High end Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best sounding Center Channel: Buy: SVS Great Center Channel READ REVIEW

Best Overall: Klipsch Excellent Speaker

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The klipsch excellent speaker is long-lasting, rigid and fits well with your regular usage like a dream. It is definitely a good speaker to upgrade your small/medium existing center. This center channel actually provides some smooth semi deep bass that you would not get from the sealed center channel. It is tailored for dialogue, not for the wider frequency range of music and sound effects coming primarily from your left and right speakers. It has a good weight to it, a nice deep cabinet with a bass port in the back to ensure your dialog and music doesn’t sound like it is radiating from a trash can.

These speakers produce clean and accurate sound at any volume. They are hidden in the built in TV furniture but they really look good with no need to hide them. It is also allows for the most efficient, fastest air transfer from the cabinet. The clarity of the vocals and surround sounds are incredible. It is great for movies, but also sound very good for music applications.

• Very sharp and detailed from quiet to loud
• Truly enhances the home theater experience, without being intrusive
• Too underpowered leads to overmodulation and can blow the tweeters
• You can hear speech so very clear and clean

Best For Voice Clarity: Klipsch High end Center Speaker

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Compared with other speaker in this category, the klipsch high end center speaker has a convenient design. This little Klipsch puts out a cleaner, better sound than the big clunker. It's not designed to serve as a stand but it is flat on top and has sturdy construction. The sound is SO CLEAR. There are a nice cloth cover with the Klipsch logo at the top. It is good for any medium sized room so long as you have a quality sub to handle the low end.

The highs, mids, and even the low tones sound great. It's low range is 88 Hz. It's good for any medium sized room so long as you have a quality sub to handle the low end.

• Very powerful for a small center speaker
• Shows is very crisp, clean and clear
• Highs, good bass response —- performs well for both music and movies
• Best value and unrated center speaker

Best For average Surround Sound: Polk Audio High end Center Speaker

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The polk audio high end center speaker's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. This center speaker works well, looks good and sounds great. It has Crisp and distinc sounds. It features a power port that is designed for bigger, more efficient, deep bass impact, and enables better blending with a subwoofer. It has a unique curved shape based on "time lens technology" – it is specially designed to align the acoustic centers of the tweeter and mid-bass in the same plane, reducing diffraction & distortions, and ensuring the right sounds reach you at the same time.

It works great as a replacement for your basic center speaker. The center channel carries the dialogue and thus is the most important speaker.

• Does not take up much room but has a great sound for its size
• Great size and shape with good sound quality for 5.1 surround
• Delivers what they promise

Best For Other Speakers: Yamaha Audio High end Center Speaker

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It is designed to maximize the potential of hd sound sources, this speaker series gives you everything you need to fully enjoy movies and music. It has no power requirement other than standard red and black audio banana connections. It has a standard 2 wire speaker connector (neg & poz) that must be connected to an amplifier. There are 2 indented sections on the back which allow the speaker to be hung on the wall. It is great for dialogue, adds depth to midrange.

This center channel is small compared to the average center channel speaker size. The sound quality is very crisp and clear as you can hear in the video. It is compatible with banana plugs and most all wire sizes. It is great addition to an older sound system missing a speaker.

• Dialogue is crisp with plenty of volume available
• High quality sound from both a television program, video streaming and dvd/blu-ray discs
• Excellent sound as a replacement center speaker clear voice tracks

Best With Stereo amplifiers: Elac High end Center Speaker

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If you often find yourself scrambling for appropriate and satisfactory speaker, elac high end center speaker should be your first option for buying. It is a good core for a entertainment center surround sound system. It is not a small speaker, but has enough "cajones" to fill the center stage wonderfully. The speaker is quite large and can move plenty of air giving you the "wall of sound. This brings such a full, warm sound to the center channel with a lot of clarity to dialogue.

What is interesting is the way the speaker projects the vocals, it fills the void in the center of the room. It has specially designed internal bracing to reduce unwanted cabinet vibration. The build quality is also very good, it's large but front port so makes it easy to set it in an entertainment center.

• Perfect for a inexpensive center channel speaker
• Spoken words can be distinguished in detail, loud and better material
• Delivers what they promise

Best For An above average Speaker: Definitive Technology High end Center Speaker

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The definitive technology high end center speaker should be able to handle its purpose and duties with ease. Definitive Technology makes beautiful speakers, both by looks and by sound quality. It can be used as a center channel with 4 in-ceiling speakers serving as the mains and rears. The speaker can definitely handle the explosive volume of john wick and the super hero movies. The dialogue in movie scenes is noticeably clearer and the male voice sounds much more realistic.

The tweeter and active woofer are front mounted and the passive drivers are mounted on the sides. The adjustable foot in the back allows you to change the angle to serve its location well. The music is sharp and crisp when used with a stereo system. The setup sound quality is very nice.

• Excellent sound from a compact speaker
• Simply elegant and beautiful with crisp, clear dialogue
• Great speaker to add for your surround sound
• Dialogue was crisp, natural, and clear

Best For car: Cerwin-Vega High end Center Speaker

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The cerwin-vega high end center speaker is satisfactory and appropriate and fits well with your regular usage. The Elac set produces a very clean and ‘clinical’ sound signature. This speaker completely fills the room with clear, precise, and theater quality sound. If you want to listen to pink floyd for example and really feel the sound scape, the tweeter cranks out the highs well with out being too harsh. The sound these produce from a mid-range Sony stereo amp is really impressive.

This center channel is clean sounding and nice-looking. These are very responsive speakers. In a small room, these are good to use in place of front towers in 5.1 setups. It is a little big to wall mount without a shelf. These are also very attractive with the sleek design and touch of red mixed in.

• Awesome for movies, computer games, no sub needed, at all
• Great range, from 60 hz up
• Mixes well with bose surround speakers
• Nice addition to any home theater

Best With nearly All AV receivers: Elac Great Speaker

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The elac great speaker gives the top-tier speaker a run for their money by offering flagship specs at a much more affordable price. The Elac Debut product line simply delivers high quality sound in any setup. It reduces cabinet vibration, minimizing the cabinets influence on overall sound quality. The Vocals are clear and can handle a decent amount of bass without losing tone. This causes the speaker to produce a hollow "tinny" effect that you don't really get in the bookshelves, which are out of this world.

This is a large center but it fits nicely in a standard stereo rack. It is compatible with nearly all av receivers and stereo amplifiers. There is no wall mount provision on the Elac center speaker. At normal and loud volumes, the elac is considerably easier to drive than either mentioned klipsch.

• Dialogue in games, movies, and music is perfect
• Crystal clear voices with great full spectrum response
• A nice complement to elac bookshelf speakers

Best sounding Speaker Array: SVS High end Center Speaker

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Svs line of speaker come in a pretty wide variety of styles, so you can definitely find one that suits your individual preferences and needs. This 3 channel speaker reproduces the full range of sound beautifully. It allows human voices to sound, human. It reproduces mids and highs with extreme accuracy and has an excellent low frequency response down to 45hz. It has clarity and a mellow richness of sound. It’s clear and it’s really projects the sound.

It’s definitely one of the best sounding centers available. The VRS ultras produce excellent clarity and tonal balance and the treble is never harsh or too forward. The piano black finish is impeccable. It's incredibly clear, great vocals during movies, smooth blending between center and fronts.

• Vocals and dialogue sounds crisp and smooth
• Tight low end and transparent sound effortlessly comes forth
• Packing was excellent, well packed, wrapped in a smooth cloth
• Absolutely superb reproduction for not much coin

Best sounding Center Channel: SVS Great Center Channel

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If you often find yourself confused about appropriate and satisfactory speaker, svs great center channel should be your first option for buying. The transition between tweeter and woofer is so smooth and seamless you’ll swear it sounds like a single full-range drive. It is the essential piece for dialogue in your home theater system. It handles movie dialogues very well and fills in the sound stage very well. The sound is clear and rich.

This gets plenty loud and sounds great with a basic 100W Onkyo A/V receiver. Vocals are nice and crisp, and give great full theater sound. It is a passive speaker and must be hooked to an receiver or amplifier via speaker cable. The best way to improve the sound of any TV is by adding a sound bar which directs the sound into the room and may offer surround effects.

• Lead coated with aluminum is the next step
• Excellent highs with clear voices and reproduction of higher frequency sounds
• One of the new comers and featured product