Focal Chora Center 2-Way Sealed Center Loudspeaker, Black, Sold Individually

The Focal Chora Center solved all my home theater center channel woes! Finally, natural sounding dialog! Every center speaker I've tried had what I call a "boxy" timbre during dialog playback; by "boxy" I mean overly pronounced and distorted mid frequencies which completely destroys dialog intelligibility.I've purchased 5 different center speakers, 2 receivers and 1 amp, thousands of dollars, and all of them made no difference, only the Focal Chora Center reproduced a natural sounding dialog track.Some speaker companies try to sell you on the idea that a 3 way system is much better. This is only true for larger systems, such as tower speakers or cinema systems where larger woofer and mid range components can be used. 3 way systems can work against producing natural sounding dialog because center cabinets tend to be smaller utilizing smaller components; with a 3 way crossover, a lot of dialog frequency information can land in the low/mid crossover frequency point, typically 500 - 1,500 Hz and important dialog frequencies are therefore "handed off" to an inferior, single 4" speaker rather than using dual 6.5" speakers which are nicely suited for dialog playback. My question to these speaker companies is: why would you want to do that? A 6.5" driver is nicely suited for dialog reproduction up to +2000 Hz.

As expected, adding the Focal center channel to my existing Focal speaker system had an incredible impact on clarity of vocals and really tied the sound stage together with my Focal Chora towers. Focal is definitely the next level in sound. Worth every penny!

Focal makes some of the best high end speakers in the world and this is no exception! This center channel speaker will solve every problem you have ever had when it comes to not being able to hear dialogue in movies. Every part of this speaker is hand made in France! unlike B&W and martin Logan or even Klipsch that are made in china this speaker is NOT!

I bought two focal chora 826s, and this focal chora center speaker. When I play dolby content. I can definitely hear clear concise dialog from the center speaker. It also fits nicely with my blue gray walls. My only complaint thus far, is the lack of budget sattelite speakers from focal. The bass isn't that great. But I am installing a powered SVS 1000 Pro subwoofer for that. I'm using a denon x1400h, and plan on upgrading soon to the x3800h. Well worth the $450 price tag.

I have recently bought a pair of Focal Chora 826 D to get Dolby Atmos with a Marantz receiver. After a couple of days I realized that the Chora center speaker was needed since a mismatch in sound quality was clearly noticeable with my old center speaker. What I finally got was very clear dialogs and solid bass response regarding the Chora center speaker. Nice look and better design.

It sounded amazing with the chora 806. It was extremely well built and I would highly recommend.

im a hifi entusiast on the way to audiophile and Focal brings out sound clarity like any other