Sony - Core Series 4" 2-Way Center-Channel Speaker - Black
Model: SSCS8
SKU: 5720006
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Customers value the sound quality and affordable price of the Core Series 4" 2-Way Center-Channel Speaker. Many also appreciate its convenient size and ease of setup, while some find the bass response particularly impressive. However, a few customers noted that the speaker might lack power for larger rooms and that the high frequencies could be improved.
Center channel seems to be mostly for dialog, but I've had no complaints for these speakers. They fit perfectly on my fireplace mantel. My TV is mounted at the perfect height to allow sufficient room for the speakers to emit sound without being blocked by the screen.
Posted by JosephE
So after owning second hand and hand me downs, I finally decided to let loose of some money and buy a new system. I was originally going to go with Klipsch, but I’m glad I made this choice instead. I enjoy the mids, and highs the speakers produce (The sound fills our space with no problem. We live in a 1400 soft Townhouse). I spent multiple hours with the “burn in”, and there is a great quality of sound that they reproduce. I purchased four of the towers, a couple bookshelves, and center (I already had a nice subwoofer). I married them up with the Onkyo TX-NR656 (7.2 ch) receiver. As of yesterday I finished off our entertainment area with the Samsung UN65MU8000 television. Everything looks and sounds great!! I would definitely purchase again, and recommend to a friend.
Posted by Viele
I originally got the SSCS5 bookshelf speakers due to the rave reviews all over the internet. Big mistake! Also ordered this, to go with them. The bookshelves were terrible and probably defective and one apparently blew at a normal listening volume. This speaker, however, is a much better speaker. The internet belief that this is just a single SSCS5 sold for the price of a pair, as a scam to rip off brainless big box store shoppers, is an absolute myth. I could easily play this speaker far harder and louder than the bookshelves. This pairs great with the Elac Debut 2.0’s that replaced the SSCS5’s. It also blends well with 4 Polk OWM3B surrounds. But for unknown reasons, this sounds better with video games than movies. May be a less compressed or noncompressed format in them? This gets 4 stars because for movies on Netflix and Disney+ the dialog is a little less crisp than other better speakers sound. Overall, this is a great speaker for the price. Another strange quirk is if I set the crossover to this speaker higher than 50hz, it makes the higher frequencies and mids sound muddier as if it adds more lower frequency sound to the tweeter. Completely inexplicable. Keeping it at 50hz drastically opens the high frequency soundstage. This is an extremely well made speaker. I tend to think a lot of the internet hate comes from on silly design issue. If you look into the rear bass port, you can see wires running behind the tweeter. Very sloppy looking for a brand like Sony. Especially when this speaker is definitely more expensive quality overall than the supposedly great SSCS5’s. They’re not great. They’re terrible! If they were on the level of this speaker, they probably would not have gone back to the store.
Posted by SlGuy
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