Revel Performa3 C208

The center channel speaker is often described as the hardest-working speaker in a home theater. If you're putting together a no-holds-barred surround sound system based on Revel's remarkable Performa3 series, the C208 is the center speaker for you. If you have a large TV or a projector system, you'll appreciate this speaker's blend of nuanced dialogue and uninhibited power. (It's an impressive sight, too — in fact, it's been a while since we've seen a center channel this big.) Revel designs and builds every driver that goes into their speakers. The C208's 4" midrange driver and dual 8" woofers use aluminum cones that are anodized on both sides with a micro-ceramic composite compound. This reduces resonances that can color the sound. The C208's 1" aluminum dome tweeter sits in Revel's concave Acoustic Lens waveguide, which increases the tweeter's dispersion at higher frequencies, and also helps create a more seamless match between the tweeter and the dual flanking woofers. The result is very smooth, consist...