The 11 Best ultra Center Speakers (2023 reviews)

There are several advantages of having a ultra center speaker. Let’s take you step by step, type by type, and find the best ultra center speaker for you.

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Best Overall: Buy: Klipsch Excellent Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For Home theatre: Buy: Yamaha Audio ultra Center Speaker READ REVIEW

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

Best For An above average Speaker: Buy: Definitive Technology Home Theater System READ REVIEW

Best For Small rooms: Buy: JBL ultra Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For car: Buy: Klipsch ultra Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For TV: Buy: Definitive Technology ultra Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best With Stereo amplifiers: Buy: Elac ultra Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best For enjoyment Of pure Sound: Buy: Polk Audio ultra Center Speaker READ REVIEW

Best sounding Speaker Array: Buy: SVS ultra 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's superior materials makes sure that it ages well with use. It is definitely a good speaker to upgrade your small/medium existing center. It is a great center speaker. It can be connected to a receiver that supplies up to 200 watts per channel at 8 ohms. It sounds great, just match the left and right to go with this center. It comes with a microphone and software to calibrate and balance all the speakers.

Setup is pretty simple, and they sound super crisp and powerful. It is allows for the most efficient, fastest air transfer from the cabinet to the cabinet. It is great for movies, but also sound very good for music applications. This is a terrific speaker and will enhance any sound system.

• You can hear speech so very clear and clean
• Very sharp and detailed from quiet to loud
• Great sounding, very clear center channel which lets be

Best For Home theatre: Yamaha Audio ultra Center Speaker

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Best part: yamaha audio ultra center speaker costs comparatively low and it is available to ship in 24 hours. This center speaker is made for indoors, but it’s not really for outside use. It has no power requirement other than standard red and black audio banana connections. It has a nice "warm" sound to the speaker with good power/volume capability. It really takes a lot of the highs out that sometimes makes the person you are listening to hard to hear.

This is a great little speaker.

• Using for improving voice when watching shows on large screen with stereo connections
• Compact size is handy for mounting
• Much better “amount” of voice without having to blast the volume
• Copper coated wires degrade with time and use

Best For average Surround Sound: Polk Audio Good Speaker

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The polk audio good speaker is capable of outshining several other speaker featured in this list in overall features for the price point. This center speaker sounds really nice and is very affordable. It's beautiful, small, and sleek. 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'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.

This speaker is small and has a low profile so its ideal to install on the wall right below your tv. It fits infront of the screen without blocking the view. 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. It needs to be connected to an amplifier or can be direct to the tv as only sound.

• Perfect fit for the samsung 55 inch flact screen with the chrome legs
• Makes a nice gift for a college dorm room
• Clear sound, low profile size, perfect for dialogue
• Does not take up much room but has a great sound for its size

Best For An above average Speaker: Definitive Technology Home Theater System

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This speaker has a bright, crisp, vibrant sound. It is a remarkably sophisticated product with huge sound. It is great for a surround sound system as the center speaker which typically supports the vocals. The speakers sound great while listening to music (hard rock), and all series, shows, and movies. Its built-in foot allows you to adjust the angle of the speaker in the vertical plane to aim the speaker at the listener’s ear height.

The setup sound quality is very nice. The adjustable foot in the back allows you to change the angle to serve its location well. This speaker is very good at reproducing sound based on the quality of the programming.

• Dialogue is clear with a full range of sound
• Inexpensive, compact, and vastly outperforms its size
• Built in adjustable stand, tilts speaker up, down or level
• Very loud, poweful, crystal clear, absolutely handles the power it is rated for

Best For Small rooms: JBL ultra Center Speaker

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The jbl ultra center speaker's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. This JBL 520 cbk sounds better than the polk t30 center by far. It has a controlled-directivity compression driver in a horn that delivers delicate highfrequency sound and live music experience to your ears with minimal interaction with walls and furniture. It reduces distortion and coloration for improved sonic clarity. The sound stage is impressively wide. It works great as a center speaker.

The sound quality is clear and true to sounding. It is good for both movies and music, but truehd music is where it really shines, and those vocals sound amazing. It reduces unwanted resonance plus it is available in a black finish.

• Amazing sound for 4" woofers and built like a german tank
• Movie dialog sounded clear and dynamic
• The most accurate vocals and great staging

Best For car: Klipsch ultra Center Speaker

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The sound quality of the speaker is simply amazing, vocals are so clear, gun shots in John Wick are mind blowing and you feel it in your chest. The surround sound created by the denon & klipsch speakers make you think the speeding car goes pass you. The newer model of the Reference Premiere line has a copper strip around each frame of the speakers as well as one around the tweeter. It looks cosmetically different and also has a great bass sound without it.

The center speaker alone sounds better than many pair of floor standing / bookshelf speakers. It provides easy setup and connection. The color does not change the size of the speaker. It could be placed on a shelf or an AV component wall mount like a shelf like the Peerless PS200 Adjustable Shelf.

• A very powerful and clear speaker
• Sounds super clear even in soft talking scenes
• Vocals are wonderful, really improves the sound image when watching movies or tv

Best For TV: Definitive Technology ultra Center Speaker

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If you often find yourself confused about convenient and suitable speaker, definitive technology ultra center speaker is your end point. This speaker is very clear and pairs with the DT Bipolar series speakers well. It has crystal clear, natural voice tones and a deep accurate tone. 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. It has two built in wall mounting options, keyhole slot and threaded insert, that makes them very decor/plasma tv friendly. It is a remarkably sophisticated product with huge sound. It is allows for perfect angle adjustment. It is the key to getting intelligible dialog and true-to-life sound effects.

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

Best With Stereo amplifiers: Elac ultra Center Speaker

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The elac ultra center speaker is the best suitable speaker on the market today. The Elac Debut 2.0 speakers provide incredible value for the quality sound that they deliver. It ensures a wide range of accurately reproduced sound. This Elac Center has deeper bass and fills the room with sound. It reduces cabinet vibration, minimizing the cabinets influence on overall sound quality. It is compatible with nearly all av receivers and stereo amplifiers.

The power is real and this speaker loves it, full controlled woofer extension and deep bass to go along with the amazing highs. This is a large speaker for a center channel. There is no wall mount provision on the Elac center speaker. It pumps out copious amounts of powerful sound with incredible clarity.

• A nice complement to elac bookshelf speakers
• Dialogue in games, movies, and music is perfect
• Higher freq sounds are clear as well
• Best sound per cost by a wide margin

Best For enjoyment Of pure Sound: Polk Audio ultra Center Speaker

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate speaker. The polk audio ultra center speaker is exactly that - it's a simple speaker that hits all the right notes. This is the latest evolution of polk's critically acclaimed monitor speaker line originally introduced in. It has a center channel output and you have room for it. The sound is very good and clear and it offers a fairly full range of sound. It is made for the enjoyment of pure sound.

The XT30 is a passive center channel designed to be connected to a surround sound receiver. This speaker does what it should, gives direct sounds such as voice and does not overdo itself for anything no matter how hard you push it. The overall construction of the box appears nice. This is a really great speaker cluster.

• Natural sound, fills the room well
• Up to 200 watts per channel
• One of the new comers and featured product

Best sounding Speaker Array: SVS ultra Center Speaker

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The svs ultra center speaker's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. It allows human voices to sound, human. If you care a lot about the design and clear voices (highs and mid), this speaker is good. It's being powered with 125 watts RMS, which is plenty to power this. It’s big and looks great. The gloss finish is fantastic but does scratch easily. The mid range and highs are very good also, very heavy and well built. It's definitely one of the best sounding centers available.

• Great sound for the center channel
• Crystal clear at and well beyond reference level listening
• Packing was excellent, well packed, wrapped in a smooth cloth
• Dialogue really stands out with clarity that isn't sharp or tiring

Best sounding Center Channel: SVS Great Center Channel

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Next on the list, we've got yet another speaker that manages to win our hearts. It's the svs great center channel and it's widely considered as speaker that has the most suitable features. It is a passive speaker and must be hooked to an receiver or amplifier via speaker cable. With smaller woofers, the sound quality is definitely several notches higher. It is good as it gets for a center channel speaker. The woofer and tweeter locations are designed to be in a specific location based on expected speaker orientation. All of these high-quality components yield lower distortion, tighter tolerances, better heat dissipation, and all around better sound.

The sound is clear and rich. It is designed to eliminate resonances for an honest, neutral and uncolored sound. This represents somewhat of a luxury, but even so it is reasonably priced for a top-end item.

• Startling output levels with high power standalone amplifiers
• Sounds great and is worth of every penny
• Blends with other brands of loudspeakers
• Very clear vocals center channel speaker