Børresen Targets Home Theatre with New Center3 Loudspeaker

That alone makes it worth a closer look. Up until now, Børresen has been firmly associated with statement two-channel designs, including the recent €1 million M8 Gold Signature, so shifting focus to the centre speaker feels like a deliberate change in direction.

It’s also a logical one. In most modern film and TV mixes, the centre channel does the heavy lifting, with dialogue often making up 60 to 80 per cent of what you hear. The Center3 is clearly aimed at addressing that, with an emphasis on keeping voices stable, intelligible and anchored to the screen, even when the rest of the soundtrack ramps up around them.

Instead of repurposing an existing design, Børresen appears to have taken a more targeted approach. CTO Michael Børresen describes the brief as one of restraint, not chasing scale or extremes but focusing on getting the fundamentals right for a very specific role. In his words, every element needed to justify itself both sonically and visually: 

With the Center3, restraint became the guiding principle. It wasn’t about pushing scale or chasing extremes, but about getting the fundamentals exactly right fora very specific role. Every decision had to justify itself—sonically as well as visually.That discipline defined the project.

Under the surface, much of the company’s established engineering carries through. The Center3 uses a pair of DCC5 Neo mid/bass drivers, each built around a three-layer composite diaphragm with a Nomex honeycomb core and carbon fibre skins. Graphene whiskers are incorporated into the structure to push resonances beyond the driver's usable range.

In the middle sits Børresen’s RP-94 ribbon tweeter. Its ultra-light aluminium-coated membrane is designed for speed, which in turn helps with transient response and fine detail. The crossover follows the brand’s serial topology, allowing current to flow in a phase-locked manner between drivers, a less common approach that’s intended to improve overall coherence across the front soundstage.

The cabinet tells a similar story. Rather than going big, the focus here is on control. Thick hardwood laminates are used throughout, with internal bracing milled directly into the structure to increase rigidity and reduce unwanted resonance. Each driver operates within its own chamber, while a dedicated cradle system, complete with Ansuz Darkz feet, handles mechanical grounding and allows the speaker to be precisely angled toward the listening position.

In terms of performance, the numbers are in line with what you’d expect at this level. The Center3 is rated from 45Hz to 50kHz, with a sensitivity of 87dB and an 8-ohm impedance. Børresen recommends amplification of at least 50 watts.

Step back, though, and the more interesting angle is what this product represents. Having pushed into the stratosphere with its flagship stereo designs, Børresen now seems to be rounding out the system, perhaps acknowledging that high-end listening increasingly overlaps with serious home cinema.

The Center3 is priced at €6,000 | US$7,000, with availability to be confirmed shortly via Audio Group Denmark’s distribution network.

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