In the quest to finalise my home theatre room one item has proven to be the most elusive.... the Centre Speaker!
I have tried many speakers in my room ...some very prominent brand names with matching "High End" price tags...none have ever provided me with 100% satisfaction, a few have been outright and utter disappointments!

Over time and through a mutual enjoyment of Home Theatre i discovered that Matthew  @Javs  who is "Javelin Audio" as well as being a very respected member on the AVS and Stereo-net  forums due to his knowledge and input in relation to HT Projectors also builds custom speakers.

I ask Matthew if he was interested in building me a Centre Speaker that would complement my Duntech Sovereigns......as no other speaker had came even remotely close to doing so.
Not a problem was Matthew,s reply , and so the project was started.

Matthew completed the design and selected the components, build went ahead and the speaker was ready for me receive..
The speaker came in at 75KG......so a flimsy cardboard packing box wasn't going to cut it. Matthew had a custom packing crate made and used a very well regarded freight company to get it to me.

On receiving the speaker it was all good from the word go.....the crate ensured it got here 100% damage free....internal packing was excellent.
Results...... to sum it up ... it the BEST centre i have had in my system by a margin !

VERY happy with the results/ performance ........lets just say some "Brand Name"  manufactures should be ashamed of the prices they are asking of their speakers!!!

 

If your even remotely interested in an alternate speaker Option , give Matthew a call ......
 

 

 

Edited November 14, 20187 yr by wooferocau

very nice woofer ! 

 

@wooferocau I will edit out one photo if dont mind it passes to anyone looking at this thread your personal details, probably not what want !

That’s an impressive looking beast. Well done for looking outside the square. It seems to have paid off handsomely. M

1 hour ago, unclemack said:

That’s an impressive looking beast. 

It is...trust me!

Cool.

 

the obvious question is how much is it?  Lots of us may want one

Just now, Steam said:

Cool.

 

the obvious question is how much is it?  Lots of us may want one

Talk to Matthew on final price.....       My costing included the custom crate and freight ......

OMG...that's one serious setup you have, hope your house foundations are good......looks awesome...enjoy.

Hi, a few people have asked, so a little more info on this particular speaker...

 

The final price on this particular speaker when it becomes available will be in the neighbourhood of $4,000.

 

The Drivers are:

2x 12" Faital 12FH520 16ohm in Parallel Low Freq Woofers - https://faitalpro.com/en/products/LF_Loudspeakers/product_details/index.php?id=151050111

2x Faital 6PR160 8ohm in Parallel Mids - https://faitalpro.com/en/products/LF_Loudspeakers/product_details/index.php?id=151050110

1x Beyma TPL150H AMT Tweeter. - http://beyma.com/products/diapharagmtweeters/1TPL15H8

 

Speaker impedance is about 4ohm, lowest it drops is about 3.5ohm. It would probably be able to handle north of 1000w. Its final sensitivity would be extremely close to 100db/watt, so by the time you throw 25 watts at the speaker, you are already well over 105db reference levels. Your ears are going to give up before this speaker will, it should be good for 125db+.

 

The Box is constructed of 25mm MDF, with a 36mm front baffle, and a fair bit of internal bracing using 18mm MDF. 76KG Weight loaded with drivers. The box itself is about 60KG.

 

The Crossover points are 300 and 1800hz. In room, its pretty much -3db at 35hz and has a steady decline over the whole range downward (a little like the harman curve) and a bit steeper roll off in the tweeter at about 8khz. This is a Home Theatre Center obviously, with a tweeter like this being behind a waveguide I have found its best to have it a bit more laid back in the very top end.

 

Final Crossover Measurement - In my room, so please ignore under about 250hz since that would be room modes. At various smoothing levels.

 

 

Raw Driver In Box Measurements - Outdoors

 

LF (Does not include Port Summation - Actual Port Response -3db is 35hz)

 

 

Mid

 

 

Tweeter

 

 

I have been building using this tweeter and these LF Woofers for some time now, I believe this is a really exceptional AMT tweeter. I currently use 7 of them all around me in my modest home theatre room.

 

My L/R consist of a large scale modular tower system which is fully active 3-way, standing 2m tall. I am using 2x Faital 15FH520's for LF in that build, a Beyma 12p80Ndv2 for the Mid (amazing mid woofer) and the TPL 150H Tweeter. The crossover points for that speaker is 200/1200hz. My current personal Center is using the same Beyma mid as mu large towers, and the same 12FH520's from Woofers, Center.

 

Here is my room, and my other speakers currently,

 

 

 

The 6-point averaged response of that particular active speaker.

 

 

The 'Rears' (Which are easily big enough to be a lot of peoples L/R) are an MTM configuration using the TPL150H Crossing at 1200hz to 2x Faital 8PR200 Woofers.

 

https://faitalpro.com/en/products/LF_Loudspeakers/product_details/index.php?id=101030200

 

 

 

Previous towers (My Own Current Centre):

 

 

 

I will also have a range of Modules available in couple of different sizes, which could be used for Dolby Atmos Enabled speakers, designed to sit on top of your L/R towers and your rear L/R speakers to facilitate Dolby Atmos and DTS:X effects.

 

 

For those who are looking for a smaller surround, and even Atmos Ceiling solution, I am also working on a slanted 8" Ported Coax Speaker which should be excellent for those duties.

 

 

These will all be available for sale direct very shortly along with a wider range of speakers and even large subwoofers. Whatever your needs we should have a full line up suitable to service every speaker in your system in a couple of different levels of size.

 

The aim here is to provide people with a serious home theatre solution right here in Australia, without the need to import from the likes of the US Factory Direct manufacturers. The idea is to give people tremendous performance for price ratio, but also taking no shortcuts in terms of driver selection, these are all very serious pro audio drivers designed for pretty extreme levels of SPL, some of these same drivers can be found in concerts and cinema applications, the aim here is to bring that level of effortless and clean performance into the home theatre segment. There are a couple of factory direct brands in the US who are doing it right and delivering incredible performance over there into customer hands for a fraction of what the big name and flashy brands are doing. However, bringing their products into Australia end up costing about 30-40% premiums based purely on the weight of the goods, this is what led me down my own path to end up here. You should have a very comparable option to those companies right here in Australia very soon. 

 

Pricing will follow shortly, hopefully in early 2019 I can open the doors to everybody and take orders for those interested in the upcoming product line.
 

Paul, happy to hear you are enjoying your speaker!, Thanks for the positive feedback

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Matthew.

Edited November 17, 20187 yr by Javs

3 hours ago, Javs said:

 

Paul, happy to hear you are enjoying your speaker!, Thanks for the positive feedback

 

 

No problem.......  its truly an a awesome centre speaker .. and the fact that you catered for my "Custom" needs was icing on the cake.. 

@wooferocau The centre your replacing this one with who made that and what design is it. 

It looks similar to mine which is a Jim Holtz Statement centre. 

I nearly made a centre with 12in drivers to match my mains and sort of wished I had.

31 minutes ago, Tony ray said:

@wooferocau The centre your replacing this one with who made that and what design is it. 

It looks similar to mine which is a Jim Holtz Statement centre. 

I nearly made a centre with 12in drivers to match my mains and sort of wished I had.

The just installed speaker is a "Javelin Audio" ...see above post by Matthew...

 

Previous centre was an " Adelaide Speakers "

 

Its interesting....... both the "Custom"  NOT "Big Branded" speakers have outperformed some very high end/high priced centre speakers that  i have had here.. ?