![]() Instead, drivers were developed appropriate for fitting into a shielded, TV-set-friendly 8.75x25x8.5in (HxWxD) enclosure. ![]() Boston Acoustics has actually taken the more difficult path of not merely flipping one of its speakers sideways (after making it symmetrical, that is). I love this flouting of surround-sound’s status quo. So the VR12 is not quite a VR speaker on its side, but a truly dedicated center model. And the VR12’s two 165mm woofers? They’re also unique, because the others use 180mm woofers. The three full-range models (VR20, VR30 and VR40) share the VR12’s 25mm anodized aluminum dome tweeter, but this three-way unit has a 115mm copolymer midrange when the only other VR three-way, the VR40, uses a 135mm driver. Weren’t we told time and again that the three speakers across the front should be identical ? You know: all that guff about what happens when someone on screen is speaking while walking across the picture? And how the sound quality shouldn’t change one iota?Īnd yet here’s Boston Acoustic’s $400 VR12 center channel speaker, an upscale model in the Lynnfield VR Series, which has no exact equivalent in the range. Still wary of this industry’s THX sermonizing, I’m at a loss to explain but happy about the proliferation of center-channel speakers that are something other than horizontally-mounted versions of a given manufacturer’s main left-and-right speakers. ![]()
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