Advice on speaker selection ?

[Sonnie Parker]

I would extend @Sonnie 's bump out to 4kHz as the important frequency range for speech intelligibility is in the 1kHz to 4kHz range and centers around 2kHz...

Yeah... I actually just started bumping it up in that higher range... centered more about 1.8kHz or so....

 

[Nordo]

Yeah... I actually just started bumping it up in that higher range... centered more about 1.8kHz or so....

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As I had Audyssey in my Denon, I used MultEQ app to boost my centre in the speech range.
Can't remember the range I used, but remember it is difficult to keep it narrow, given the different ranges of men vs women.

 

[ddude003]

Funny how with a Home Theatre the Center Channel is _the most important_ speaker and usually gets the least amount of attention in the budget and in the setup/tuning...

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Funny how with a Home Theatre the Center Channel is _the most important_ speaker and usually gets the least amount of attention in the budget and in the setup/tuning...

It's not so much the user's fault as for as budget... we can only buy what the manufacturer produces. Most only offer one center for the particular model line, so it's either that center, or buy an extra L+R unit for the center.

In my case, MartinLogan makes several options, and none are budget friendly, right? But in the past, I was stuck with some whimpy center options for sure.

 

[tesseract]

Tinnitus is generally centered around 4kHz, not the upper FR that are lost as we grow older. If you can hear to 8kHz, you hearing well over 90% of the program material, 12kHz gets one almost all of the way home. This bench-racing of how high one can hear is ludicrous, there is very little program material energy above 12kHz.

That said, accentuating 4kHz will likely induce a tinnitus spike, triggering increased ringing. Exercise caution. Speak to your audiologist.