Are there plans to release a small 2-way center loudspeaker to match the HT series?
All the international standards for 5.1 systems agree that the center loudspeaker should, where possible, ‘match’ the left and right loudspeakers. The best way to ensure a match with the left and right loudspeakers is to use exactly the same loudspeaker model. In the case of Genelec’s 2-way loudspeakers, the cabinets are compact enough that the standard model can be used in most situations. Dedicated centre channel versions of two-way systems are more costly to produce, physically larger and have acoustical ‘features’ that seriously compromises the sound quality. Only in larger 3-way systems, for example the HT315B and HT324A, are center channel versions, for example the HT320BC and HT324AC, a viable solution acoustically, practically AND economically.
