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(More customer reviews)I believe a bit of background is in order to understand my love of this speaker:
Like many married men, my home audio setup is comprised of components purchased over a large number of years. Every piece studied and determined to have the best quality at the best price - because that's the only way to get purchases approved in a household if they are not a fabulous new pair of shoes, or a Prada handbag. My home audio system spans nearly 20 years and two marriages, trust me when I say I am an expert.
My last "big" audio purchase was a set of Jamo E855 floorstanding speakers about eight years ago. I found a local merchant that was patient enough to let me spend about 4 hours previewing his entire stock of loudspeakers. The Jamos are hard to describe using any other word than perfect. The sound quality and dynamic range is awesome.
So, prior to the Jamos, I ran Advent Ruby B2R bookshelf speakers and a single JBL center (that I bought from a pile of discontinued speakers for $10). This setup worked well for home theater (mind you, we're talking about watching movies on VHS now) until I bought the E855's. I then procured a NHT 1.1 to use as a center and thought everything sounded good.
This brings us to the end of 2009, and I finally get my hands on a PS3 / Blu-ray player. One benefit of bluray is the extended audio range available. I am not talking frequency range - I am talking *volume*. Whenever there is an action scene, you get *explosive* sound potential - and if that potential is combined with a high current amplifier, your 20-year old center channel is not long for this world.
The first Bluray we watched was "Bolt" - and the intro scene where all he11 breaks loose and Bolt has to protect his owner from the bad guys - well, the NHT died. I substituted one of my advent rubies and that lasted until"X-men Origins: Wolverine".
Bluray can place such a huge demand on your speakers that they can damage themselves - my speakers (both) ripped out their entire foam surrounds from the woofer cone. Before you think my cheap amplifier was clipping, I have a h/k PA5800 - 5 channels @ 80W @ 8ohms and 80 amps of available current. Laymens terms - I'm not working this amp hard enough to get anywhere near clipping.
I decided it was time to spend some money and get a Jamo center speaker; many people claim the timbre of the center must match the timbre of the other speakers in the system. Whatever. As long as a speaker sounds good and can reproduce voices accurately, what's the big deal?
Well, come to find out, it is incredibly important, LOL. Of course I didn't know this until I actually hooked up my new C60CEN and popped in a movie to watch. I chose "The Fifth Element" and sat back and enjoyed. I can not believe how much sound I had been missing from movies before the C60CEN. Of course, the voices were clear and the center channel performed great for that - but it was how the soundstage opened up that was so shocking!
Now that I have all my front speakers with the same drivers and very similar sonic performance, you hear much more detail in the movie as all three speakers match sound output. When I say "output", I mean that the same frequencies are reproduced at nearly the same sound levels, so the net sound out of the speakers is more balanced and heard like it is supposed to.
As far as build quality goes, it is classic Jamo quality; beautiful cabinet, hardware and speaker connections are top of the line and the sound is fantastic. And based on the quality of my eight-year old E855's, I should not have to worry about any problems with my C60CEN.
I have heard rumor that Jamo is now owned by Klipsch, and I'm not sure what that means for the product's future, but all of the Jamo speakers I have were made in Denmark and are of the highest quality. Don't know if the newer models are similar in quality - but keep this in mind when buying other Jamo products (not that Klipsch is crap, LOL ).
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The C Jamo C60 CEN center channel speaker is a high performance 2-way bass-reflex center-channel speaker in a very compact package that features two heavy-duty 4" woofers and one 1" DTT (Decoupled Tweeter Technology) tweeter, a layout that promises seamless timbre matching with all the C 60 series models. The Jamo C60 CEN center channel speaker has been produced with the same slim form and curving lines that have given the series its visual identity and unmistakable kinship between the smallest and largest members of the Concert family. The C60 series has been developed so that it can be combined with any of the subwoofers in Jamo's new line of subs. This translates into a real "value-for-the-money" series, which plays much better than many of its more expensive competitors, whether you combine with a high-end Hi-Fi solution or a serious surround system. C60 CEN can be mounted either directly on the wall or placed on a video shelf.
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