Seventy per cent of a film comes out of this one · review
The accessible centre channel: a two-way passive speaker with its driver materials named, at a fraction of the price of the rest of this shelf.
The bottom line The cheapest real fix for dialogue in a stereo system — materials named, figures absent, and the improvement is the largest step on this shelf.
Because the step it enables is the biggest one available. A system without a centre channel reproduces dialogue as a phantom image that only works from the middle seat. Adding any centre channel fixes that for everyone. The difference between this speaker and one costing three times more is smaller than the difference between this speaker and none.
Woven carbon fibre woofer, silk dome tweeter, ported enclosure. Materials and construction, stated rather than described in adjectives. That is more than most of this shelf offers at any price.
One driver covers bass and the midrange where voices sit. A three-way design gives the midrange its own driver, which is audibly cleaner at volume. At this price, two-way is the honest configuration.
It extends the low end of a small cabinet, and it needs air behind it. A ported centre pushed tight against a cabinet back will not perform as designed — leave it a few centimetres.
Run the receiver’s calibration, then raise the centre channel a decibel or two by ear if dialogue still needs it. That last adjustment is a preference and a legitimate one.
On sale at around 79 € on the German, British, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores at the time of checking.
Listed but with no offer on the American Amazon store — the reference exists there and nobody is currently selling it.
Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 4 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Type | Passive, two-way — stated |
|---|---|
| Woofer | Woven carbon fibre, balanced, for improved transient response — stated |
| Tweeter | Silk dome — stated |
| Enclosure | Ported, for extended bass with low distortion — stated |
| Sensitivity | Not stated in this listing |
| Amazon reference | DE B00HH2GINM · US B016A88UN4 · GB B00HH2GINM · FR B00HH2GINM · IT B00HH2GINM · ES B00HH2GINM |
| EAN | 0741360331402 |
Almost always. The gap between no centre channel and any centre channel is far larger than the gap between a cheap one and an expensive one, because it is the difference between a phantom image and a real source at the screen.
Silk is a soft dome material, generally described as smoother in the treble than a metal dome. It is a material fact rather than a measurement, and this page reports it as the maker states it.
80/140 W · 8x dB sensitivity stated · 30–30 000 Hz · crossover 400/3 000 Hz · 160 mm woofer
The only speaker in this catalogue with a complete published specification — sensitivity, frequency range, crossover points and driver diameters, all stated.
Best for: A system built from components where the centre has to be chosen on published figures rather than on a brand.
≈ 217 €
Centre channel · Hi-Res certified · four 3-inch woofers with Dynamic Balance · Terylene tweeter
A four-woofer centre from a range that also makes matching floorstanders, surrounds and height modules — which is what makes a system out of a speaker.
Best for: The centre of a Polk system, where the front three come from one range and behave as one.
≈ $249 / £219 / 250 €
Passive centre · FSC-certified wood cabinet · designed to extend Ultima stereo sets · revised crossover
A centre speaker designed to be added to an existing stereo pair from the same range — which is how most surround systems actually grow.
Best for: Someone who already owns Teufel Ultima stereo speakers and wants to add a centre without changing anything else.
≈ 190 €
