Product Description
Created by world-renowned speaker engineer Andrew Jones and completely re-engineered for 2012, the sp-c22 center channel speaker offers extraordinary performance and remarkable quality to deliver a phenomenal music and home theater experience.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1529 in Speakers
- Brand: Pioneer
- Model: SP-C22
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.13" h x 18.13" w x 8.45" l, 13.45 pounds
Features
- RF Molded Curved Cabinet
- Two 4" Structured Surface Woofers
- 1" high efficiency soft dome tweeter
- Gold 5-way binding posts
- 6 element complex crossover
From the Manufacturer
The Andrew Jones Designed Center Channel Speaker
Introducing a remarkably affordable center channel speaker from Pioneer, the SP-C22. Watch any movie on a home theater system, and the center channel speaker is where 50% of the soundtrack comes from, including the majority of the dialogue. It keeps the sound anchored to the action on-screen.
The new Pioneer SP-C22 speaker does the job in stunning fashion utilizing dual woofers in a full-sized cabinet for enhanced vocal performance. If you want your entertainment as real as it gets, the SP-C22 is one of the most important speakers you can own.
70 Years of Audio Firsts
Designed by Pioneer's Chief Speaker Engineer, internationally renowned Andrew Jones, this speaker comes with a remarkable pedigree of over 70 years of Pioneer audio heritage and industry firsts. Like every speaker Pioneer builds, the SP-C22 is engineered to offer incredible design and amazing sound quality. Some of Andrew Jones speakers run as high as $80,000. For considerably less you can be the beneficiary of his high-end expertise and passion in the creation of this outstanding center channel speaker.
Thinking Out Of The Box
The SP-C22 utilizes a true curved cabinet design resulting in a stiffer cabinet wall. This reduces standing sound waves inside, resulting in high-performance and striking sound quality. Elegant speaker grills do double duty by also doing a superior job of protecting the drivers. The SP-C22 is a genuine beauty in the service of exceptional audio reproduction.
The Inside Story
The job of the crossover in a speaker is to break the audio signal into low, high, and sometimes mid-range frequencies using circuitry like inductors and capacitors. While the competition uses a simple, low-cost single capacitor/inductor crossover, the SP-C22 utilizes a sophisticated 6-element, high-quality crossover. Dialogue is crisper. Car crashes are crunchier. Explosions are louder. It's one more way of insuring high quality and accurate sound reproduction from your favorite movies and events.
Whatever your system, the SP-C22-Center Channel Speaker is ready to step it up with authentic audio reproduction to bring your entertainment experience to the next level.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
By christophermx4
I've owned the entire speaker set for about two weeks, and my assessment of these speakers is positive. For starters, they sound great - better than some other high end speaker systems I've experienced. Bose or Klipsch speakers have nothing on the Pioneers, despite being several times more expensive. I've watched movies on them, played video games, listened to music and these speakers easily adapt to each usage scenario. Yesterday, I watched Black Hawk Down, and the experience was perfect. When Faith No More blasted from PA speakers in the military base, to the crackle of AK-47 fire - each sound was accurately reproduced. The subwoofer easily handed the extended bass of the helicopters crashing. Dialogue from the center channel does also sounded true to life.
For video games, I've been playing Halo 4, and I have no complaints. The rear bookshelf speakers can handle FX such as explosions, provided the crossover point is set to 100hz. I also had to boost the volume of the center channel to capture action happening directly in front of me. I have the SP-FS52's for my left and right channels, and they nearly overpowered the center speaker during intense firefights.
With music, I had to do a little more tweaking to get a result I enjoyed. I like to listen to my music in stereo mode, with the subwoofer producing the low end (2.1). I've played some Deftones, Chevelle, Lonely Island and Knife Party to EQ the speakers. My final result was raising the low end on the SP-FS52's (100hz - 400hz)a bit to enhance the tone of the bass guitar in rock music. With dubstep or rap, no adjustments were needed - the subwoofer easily handled the bass. Time and time again, I was struck by the clarity of the music - as ridiculous as this sounds, I was hearing things I've never heard before in albums that I've listened to for decades. In particular, vocals sound extremely rich. It sounds like the vocalist is literally in my living room.
Why not five stars? It's not a major issue, but I feel that the subwoofer could use further refinement. I know how good clean bass should sound - I've played the bass guitar for over a decade, and I own a high end Hartke amp/cabinet setup. My issue with the SW-8MK2 is that the attack of the subwoofer isn't quite as clean as it could possibly be. During certain metal tracks on double bass parts, the subwoofer struggles with clearly defining each hit of the bass drum. During tracks where the bass guitar is played with quick staccato notes, again the subwoofer doesn't really separate each note. Does that make it a bad subwoofer? Absolutely not - for the price, this is a fantastic subwoofer. I had to listen closely to the subwoofer to notice this discrepancy in the first place.
Overall, I'm very satisfied with my purchase. I have these speakers paired to a Yamaha RX-V373, and the YPAO device did setup the levels nearly perfect the first run through (minus that adjustment to the center channel).If you're looking to build your first true sound system, I would recommend these system. Dollar to speaker ratio, I'm not sure what else could sound better.
Below are links to the rest of the equipment I used during this review.
Pioneer SP-FS52-LR Andrew Jones Designed Floor standing Loudspeakers (each)
Pioneer SP-C22 Andrew Jones Designed Center Channel Speaker
Pioneer SP-BS22-LR Andrew Jones Designed Bookshelf Loudspeakers
Yamaha RX-V373 5.1-Channel AV Receiver
21 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
By Charles Percoco
Every once in a while in the audio world you come across an amazing bargain in sound. The Pioneer SP-FS52 fits the bill.
Designed by Pioneer's Chief Sound Engineer Andrew Jones ( no, not the ballplayer)it is a true giant killer. Solidly built,nice to look at with it's curved cabinets,you could spend twice the amount and not match it's sound quality. In a stereo only, man cave setting, matched with an Onkyo A5L Digital Amp (now available at huge discounts and a great piece of audio gear after break-in)a Grace IRDT-200 Internet Tuner and all joined with low cost QED digital and speaker cable I was amazed just how good they sounded. After a break-in time of about 100 hours,highs are silky smooth,the midrange is sweet and there is enough bottom end placed about 18 inches from the rear wall that no sub is necessary.Now I picked these about about three weeks ago before they were available on Amazon from a major online store for one-hundred sixty bucks a pair with tax and shipping, a huge bargain, but even at full retail they are still a steal!If you are looking to spend some where in the neighborhood of $500 for a pair for floor standers you must at least audition these.You could buy these and spend the extra cash on something else....like more toys!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Mark G. Loftus
I'm on a tight budget. I bought a refurbished Onkyo receiver and added these speakers from Amazon using points accrued on a credit card. The Pioneer BS22s have breathed new life into my music collection. I am hearing new details on some of my favorite albums, and I am also hearing the deficiencies on some poorly engineered albums from the early 1970s that I had never noticed before.
These speakers are tremendous value and I highly recommend them.
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