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THIS CENTER IS JUST SO ACCURATE WITH VOICES AND IT BLENDS WITH MY REFERANCE 80 V2. NO COMPLAINTS HERE. EXCELLENT CENTER SPEAKER NUFF SAID. NOW GOOD DAY!!!

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Great dynamics,wide soundstage, detailed, good bass, clear dialogue

None that I have encountered

This center speaker has very good focus and clear, concise dialogue and the detail is excellent. It sounds very good for music and home theater and blends well with my other Paradigm speakers-well made and very high quality product.

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Paradigm Ref.20s and PS-1000 sub

Heavy, big, beautiful, absolutely imponent.

The price in Brazil. ops the dealer in Brazil (Sincrotape Systems) Your @#$#@*#$@!! I will @#$@#%&* you!!

Very good center channel. I prefered the Studio. The B&W, JBL, Polk, Dynaudio, I don't liked. and I never will go to buy a Revel or other thing in this price.

You are very lucky guys, because this products in the USA are too cheaps. In BRAZIL the HI-END don't works. Why? The ganancious dealers (look up) and the variation of the dollar, are a big and heavy troubles.

And I search for a subwoofer (velodyne,rel,revel) if you have one, please send me a e-mail: aprendizdosaber@ig.com.br
Thank You and good shoppings.

Five stars to all...

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Never, I tested other products but this is my first center channel.

Exceptional quality and clarity. Terrific value for the price. Very natural sounding.

None so far

I think it's the best center channel speaker on the market for its price. I am still amazed about clarity and focus. The dialogue is concise and the detail is excellent. I use it with a pair of Kef Reference 104/2 front speaker and the matching is excellent. Fine product, highly recommended!

Clarity, highly detailed, price !

Size .... wouldn't fit on top of my TV

To be honest I wasn't even aware of what I missing in HT from the center channel until I started shopping for my new speakers. This baby is BIG, but puts out some great sound for HT and music in 5 channel stereo mode.

I lacked about an eighth of an inch of getting this monster to fit on top of my TV inside my entertainment center under a fixed shelf. So instead I put it up about 6 1/2 feet off the floor on top the entertainment center and used 3 larger wood wedges to angle the sound waves down into the main listening area.

So far I haven't been disappointed, but I am anxious to buy a 3 channel amp to really make my REF Studio 60's and CC sing !! More on that later on down the road.

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my home theater .........

32" Sony TV
Marantz SR-8000 A/V receiver
Sony 560 DVD
Denon CD player
Panasonic VCR
Paradigm REF Studio 60's mains
Paradigm REF Studio CC
Paradigm Servo 15 subwoofer
surrounds -- to come soon
AMP -- to come even sooner !

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Clarity, build quality, natural sounding vocals, seamless matching of Reference Studio speakers, price

looks do not match other real wood veneered speakers. large so it is difficult to find room to place.

What can I say that hasn't already been said. This is an awesome speaker. I love the fact that it is large, but I think this is it's down side too. I cannot place this on my tv, but oh well.

I love how when using this CC I don't even think about the speaker, but I watch the movie or tv b/c everything seems so perfect and life-like. The price is right for what you get too. I have checked out some of B&W stuff and I really like the Paradigm much better...especially for the price. I do wish this came in wood veneer, but then again that might be a little stupid looking b/c the idea behind a CC is to be invisible and not to draw attention to itself.

I am gonna cut this short, but to all readers this is THE center channel. Price is VERY reasonable, it plays not only awesome music, but GREAT HT! The midrange is absolutely perfect. I have no real complaints with this product and I suggest anyone looking into great HT look into Paradigm.

Gears:
SOny STR-DA777ES receiver
Sony CDP-80ES 5-disc
Sony DVP-S9000ES DVD/CD/SACD player
Monster line conditioner 3500
Paradigm Studio 60's for front
Atoms for rear
Studio CC
27" VEGA
Liberty ULTRA CAP 2 speaker cable for CC, and front
Monster zipcord for rears
Stealth SCR silver ribbon interconnect for 5-disc
TMC White Label for SACD (Great product)!!!

Cheers.

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infinity cc, B&W LCR

Clean imaging for voices. Build Quality. One of the best centers out there!

Can't really add anything that has not been said already. It is a great performing center. Very clean sound. Voices are very natural and clear. The clarity of the information processed by this speaker to the listener is just flawless.
Paradigm has made another Studio series speaker that is just amazing.

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Polk, Def-Tech, B&W, Infinity

clarity of dialogue
very natural sounding

not a perfect timbre match with Paradigm Reference Active/20's

This speaker is Paradigm Reference's replacement for the popular CC-450 center channel (I don't know of any differences other than the name change). I bought this speaker with two goals in mind, to find a good timbre match for my Active/20's and to get clearer dialogue reproduction. While the speaker has a closer tonal match than the Klipsch it replaced it isn't as good as I had hoped for. This may be somewhat due to the Denon AVR-2400 receiver driving it. I couldn't justify the expense of an Active/CC with a $450 higher list price to achieve a near pefect match.
I am still amazed at the difference in clarity between my old center and new. I used to have to turn on the captions on quiet movie scenes just to tell what was being said. I have only done that once with the Studio/CC speaker for a single word I couldn't understand. This speaker has a very high quality look and feel (approx. 32 lbs.) with gold speaker connections for regular or bi-amp/bi-wiring. I was able to get a $100 trade-in on my old center deducted from a reasonable $430 price (lists at $500)

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upgraded from Klipsch KV-1 center channel

Clarity, depth, vocal placement in movies, even sound great for music in 5 channel stereo or music videos played in dd

absolutely nada

I bought this speaker mainly just because it matched my reference 60 v.2's. The center channel was always just going to be the matching one for the fronts I liked best. Well, the 60's won the front competition, and WOW the reference center has impressed me.
For movies, the clarity is amazing. Even when there are loud effects going on all around, the dialog is always right there and clear as a bell. I don't think I'll ever have to turn to my girlfriend and ask "What did he say?" any more. At least not until my hearing starts to go, and I think I've got a good 20 years before that happens (knock on wood).
The speaker has the same cones and tweeter as the 60s. It's basically like chopping off the bottom 10 inches of the 60s and placing it on top of your tv.

Really, really nice unit. Now if the clock would just move a little faster, I could get home and listen to it again.
By the way, I got mine for $415.

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Timbre matched to Studio series, Bi-wire, Solid

Weight, No rubber feet

I had to retire my Jamo center channel because the music DVDs were just putting out too much info Bass/mid for it to keep up. It had done a awesome job for many years. But now I have this 32 lb heavy weight which I hope my 32" TV can handle on top of it. It handles every thing I have thrown at it. Clear vocalas on movies and rocking on concert DVD's. I love it. I am glad i didn't skip this speaker when I bought all my paradigms. I have it sitting on a piece of dense rubber to isolate it from TV. I have auditioned about 8 center channel speakers and I forget all their names but this was by far the BEST! I bought this w/o hearing it because all the other ref studio speakers were so good. I knew i couldn't go wrong. It takes a lickin' & keeps on tickin'!!

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