Yamaha Audio NS-C210BL Center Channel Speaker - Each (Black)

This is an excellent speaker to use for a center in your surround system. It has a nice, strong, clear sound and really enables the dialogue in movies to come through. It is wide, but not too tall or deep, allowing some flexibility in placement. I did end up returning the one I bought, but that is no fault of the Yamaha speaker so I did not take away any stars. It was strictly my decision. Speakers are a very subjective thing and various brands, while clear sounding and well performing, have their own tonal coloration. The rest of my system was all JBL except this center. JBL speakers have their own sound if you have ever heard them, and after trying this for several days I just wasn't satisfied with the tone. The Yamaha sounded good, but it was distinguishable from the other speakers just by the tone. Even though I wasn't wanting to spend the extra money, I returned this and got the JBL ES-25C to match the other JBL speakers. Immediately, the tone was consistent and no longer detracted from my listening enjoyment.If you have some other brand of speakers, I would highly recommend this Yamaha for use as a center. It is a good speaker. It just didn't work with my JBL.........again, no fault of the Yamaha. It is nice, well constructed and has a good sound.

When I decided to swap out the sound bar I was using as a center speaker (yeah, I know), I looked for a center channel speaker that would be small enough to sit in front of my TV yet good enough to do a better job. Cost was also a factor. I finally settled on this Yamaha speaker, and I don't regret it a bit. The sound is clear with good range, although, of course, the center channel doesn't test sound quality the way the other speakers do, and it works just as well with music and it does with home theater video.I love that it comes with its own speaker wire that has already been scored at the ends so the buyer can just slip off the plastic coating, twist, and connect to a receiver. (Audiophiles will likely want a smaller gauge/thicker wire, but the included wire is perfect for the average consumer.) Note: this is not a powered speaker. You must have an audio receiver to use it.The speaker is 4 1/8" high x 13 3/8" wide x 5" deep, including the grill.-- Debbie Lee Wesselmann

I've been looking for awhile to find a center channel for the PC to hook up to the receiver. I have a Klipsch bookshelf surround and Klipsch doesn't make a desktop size center. Actually not many manufacturers at all let alone something that's decent quality!So not easy finding a center channel in this size of good quality to fit on a desk that can pair and sound as good as Klipsch bookshelf speakers.This small Yamaha center does very well paired against the Klipsch's. The tone matches so close in fact that I didn't bother with calibration which is a nice surprise.The Yamaha center is a dome tweeter but it does very well against the horns on the Klipsch's and the clarity of dialog is also very good.I don't think it's loud enough to go in anything but a small living room but for my purpose as a desktop center channel it does exceptionally well.Has a nice solid weight to it and supports banana plugs. Overall really pleased with this small center from Yamaha.

I wanted a basic center channel for a 5.1 AV receiver system. The model by Pioneer I preferred had no way to wall hang it. It was very hard to research center channels on Amazon. It was hard to find out which units had wall hanging ability.In a way, I just gave up. This was not as cheap as the better made and better sounding unit I would have preferred but, at least it was clear: this could be hung.Also, the max watts was good for the receiver I have. Also a Yamaha.The look of it is fine. The screen cloth is grey but a dark grey. A plastic criss cross mesh is under the screen.Why they did not make the speaker cover removable is a mystery.I think the one I got was originally part of a kit that included some other surround speakers and this was a leftover from a box that was broken up. The box it came in was plain and looked like it would be in a larger kit box originally. To some degree, this sales tomfoolery pisses me off. Just TELL us it was from a KIT. You will still sell them AND be honest upfront!The unit comes with some velcro things probably a lawyer mandated to keep it in a cabinet. They should have included flat (a millimeter or two), low rubber feet BUILT IN. (Not the kind you stick on as the glue inevitably fails in a few years and you have to replace them anyway.)The cabinet is good quality. It looks and seems like actual wood veneer. But fake veneer can be pretty real looking. Either way, it makes no difference. It looks good and is black.The sound quality, well, not sure what to say. Center channel is all for dialog on surround sound. If you turn on the center channel option after having no center from the start (like me) on your AV receiver, it does play from this speaker. Voices do come from it and music from the LR front speakers. Some (many) people skip the center. Indeed, I'd get a sub woofer way before you got this (if you need or are missing a woofer). The quality if hard for me to judge. A lot depends on the recording quality. I’ll need to watch a bunch of movies in surround with it to see if it makes a difference. Some movies have dialog SO LOW it is ridiculous. I bought this, in part, to see if it would help.There is one issue and, it may be deliberate. Human voice highs, like women talking, end with a high pitch at the end. S words in particular. Equally, low lows like deep deep mens voices seem unnatural.So I trimmed the highs and the lows a tiny bit with the AV receiver EQ on the center channel speaker setting.I have not yet done the final YPAO set up where the receiver sets all that up - need to move a big couch to right spot. But, the YPAO results are often less than perfect too.This is a ported speaker. I have mixed feelings about porting in general. It could be the cause of the male voice low lows being unnatural.If Yamaha made a model like this just a little lower in height, it would fit under many it not most HDTVs on stands. But this one is about .35 inches into the screen area of a Sony Bravia I have. (I’ll end up hanging either the TV or speaker eventually but, Yamaha, you are SO CLOSE! Just make them a little lower…Update: I've used it for a few years. A lot of how good a center is depends on the source. Well microphoned voices are good. Bad mic or bad post processing of the audio = bad voice. This is a good center speaker from a good company. I raised it one star. If the cover came off and it came with decent feet and it was slightly lower and the included cable was a bit better quality, maybe 5 stars.

Good speaker at a great price

Great sound and easy to set up....

This Yamaha center channel speaker is a HUGE improvement for my TV setup. These fancy new televisions don't have great speakers and that's apparently why it's difficult to hear dialogue these days! After getting a surround sound receiver and connecting this center channel speaker, I'm no longer looking at the closed captions all the time to hear what characters are saying! I can't believe I put up with bad TV speakers for so long.