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Jamo S 83 CEN Center Channel Speaker (black or walnut)

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Adorama has Jamo S 83 CEN Center Channel Speaker on sale for $74.99. Shipping is free.

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Available Colors:Features:
  • Optimum dialogue reproduction
  • Elegant, contemporary design
  • Designed for larger rooms
  • WaveGuide acoustic technology
  • Seamless magnetic grille
  • 25MM (1") soft dome tweeter
  • Dual 127mm (5") polyfiber woofer

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Adorama has Jamo S 83 CEN Center Channel Speaker on sale for $74.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Editor iconian for finding this deal.

Available Colors:Features:
  • Optimum dialogue reproduction
  • Elegant, contemporary design
  • Designed for larger rooms
  • WaveGuide acoustic technology
  • Seamless magnetic grille
  • 25MM (1") soft dome tweeter
  • Dual 127mm (5") polyfiber woofer

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Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • Our research indicates that this deal is $42.72 less (36% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $117.71 at the time of this posting.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Have this center from the last deal Jamo did on a 5pc setup. Unless you want to turn gains up all the time, I wouldn't recommend.
Not a huge fan of this center. Very quiet for dialogue and have to turn up gains on center channel. At this price, not a bad deal but I'd spend more for better.

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Mar 9, 2024
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TheSaurus
Mar 9, 2024
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Is this any good currently have an old Onkyo center speaker skc-540c at 130w and 8 impedance
Mar 9, 2024
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Have this center from the last deal Jamo did on a 5pc setup. Unless you want to turn gains up all the time, I wouldn't recommend.
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DAVEYSANDERSON
Mar 9, 2024
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Not a huge fan of this center. Very quiet for dialogue and have to turn up gains on center channel. At this price, not a bad deal but I'd spend more for better.
Mar 9, 2024
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dkgood
Mar 9, 2024
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Crap, avoid
Mar 10, 2024
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theradiantchild
Mar 10, 2024
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I have the tower speakers s809 with a studio 120c center channel JBL speaker. Would this be better to match?
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ReluctantSupervisor
Mar 10, 2024
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I thought my "old man" ears were getting bad and I've been using this exact center with other Jamo speakers and it has been fantastic. Some programs do have poor dialog separation (blame the audio engineer) but the vast majority has been working great not even getting into the value proposition here. Are there really that many center channel speakers at this price point that are far superior?

If your budget is higher than this range then by all means you can absolutely do better but for a cheap 5.1 or more, set-up it's hard to beat the cost to performance in my anecdotal use anyway. The weakest area for Jamo would be their subs and I would opt for almost anything else in this area.
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DavidD6012
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Quote from DAVEYSANDERSON :
Not a huge fan of this center. Very quiet for dialogue and have to turn up gains on center channel. At this price, not a bad deal but I'd spend more for better.
If you ran room eq that set your center channel to the same dB as left/right, how would it be the speakers fault for quiet dialogue instead of how the soundtrack was remastered? I'm asking because I bought this center channel too. I do find some movies quiet on dialogue, but then some seem fine. I have Dirac and it fixed many of the frequency issues that some have said cause the dialogue to appear muffled.

Also, would anyone recommend keeping Jamo L/R floorstanding speakers and using a Klipsch center channel (obviously has a higher sensitivity) or would that still cause timbre issues?

EDIT: Whoever downvoted me, I was actually asking a question about soundtrack mastering. I did not intent to sound snarky.
Last edited by DavidD6012 March 11, 2024 at 10:29 AM.
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NeatMeerkat520
Mar 11, 2024
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I think for a similar price you can also buy monoprice monolith c6 center. Recently, I purchased the encore c5 due to limited shelf space, and I am very satisfied with this $65 purchase. As the poster mentioned, with room correction software, most speakers will sound reasonable. I am using Dirac, and I am using three different brands: tower, center, surround, and subwoofer, and they blend in very well together.
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LEOMHK1.0
Mar 12, 2024
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Even though Jamo sounded like it was a Kmart in store brand.
It was a niche brand but ever since it was bought by Klipsch. Performance has gone down
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VeggieTorta
Mar 12, 2024
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Do not recommend, I bought the 5pc kit and it was the first speaker I replaced due to low dialogue.
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Quote from theradiantchild :
I have the tower speakers s809 with a studio 120c center channel JBL speaker. Would this be better to match?
Yes. As with all setups you should match at least the LRC channels with the same line of speakers. If you like your Jamo towers and plan on keeping them then I would buy this.
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nekcih
Mar 13, 2024
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I have a white one to sell if anybody wants it. 😉

After DIRAC Live setup, it's a decent speaker unless you tend to listen to everything pretty loud (which I do).
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jsmitty5000
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Quote from NeatMeerkat520 :
I think for a similar price you can also buy monoprice monolith c6 center. Recently, I purchased the encore c5 due to limited shelf space, and I am very satisfied with this $65 purchase. As the poster mentioned, with room correction software, most speakers will sound reasonable. I am using Dirac, and I am using three different brands: tower, center, surround, and subwoofer, and they blend in very well together.
You can get the C5 center at this price, definitely cannot get the C6 center at this price.

For this price, if someone does the work to run the EQ (which idk why someone would buy a receiver + speakers and not run EQ), it's a great value/deal. This obviously isn't for ppl looking to spend a few hundred to several hundred dollars per speaker.
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theradiantchild
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Quote from zevonangel :
Yes. As with all setups you should match at least the LRC channels with the same line of speakers. If you like your Jamo towers and plan on keeping them then I would buy this.
What about the rear surrounds? I have JBL studio 130 or Klipsch quintet

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Quote from theradiantchild :
What about the rear surrounds? I have JBL studio 130 or Klipsch quintet
I would use whichever you think sounds better - Just make sure the front 3 match (LRC). A lot of people will say this speaker sounds better than that but in the long run it's your setup and your decision with speakers. You could get an idea from others about which to get but sometimes the bigger picture is your listening room. You might think a speaker sounds good at say best buy but how it sounds in your listening space may be much different. Depends on the size and shape of your room, windows, shades, etc. Also, if you have hardwood floors you may want to put an area rug in there so you're not hearing too many reflections and there's no full proof room setup. Sometimes one speaker may sound different in your space and maybe there's not much you can do about it. Every room is different. I chose to buy four of the same bookshelf speakers and a center that's part of the same set. I have some def tech speakers that sound better for rear speakers that I don't use because I chose seamlessness over clarity. All of the same speakers or all in a specific set will create more seamlessness - no gaps so when playing movies it's harder to tell what speaker the sound is coming from. Eventually I'll upgrade but I'll stick to getting 4 of the same bookshelf speakers and a matching center. -my personal preference. Some hardcore audiophiles will even use 5 of the same speaker and tilt one sideways for a center.

If I had your setup I would get the center and then compare it to another brand. Experiment. You'll hear the difference with LRC with the same product line. You'll want to calibrate your AVR after you pick your setup. Also you might need to play around with equalization if the dialogue isn't clear from the center and sometimes no matter what you do it won't get much better. So I don't know what this center sounds like but those are my opinions and the opinion of almost everyone is to match the front 3. Hope this was helpful.

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