Cinema-Quality Home-Theater Performance on a Popcorn Budget: All-New Wharfedale Diamond 12.C Center-Channel Loudspeaker Plays with Clarity, Punctuality, and Detail

Cinema-quality home-theater performance on a popcorn budget: The Wharfedale Diamond 12.C center-channel loudspeaker supplies the clarity, punctuality, cohesiveness, and balance necessary to convert your space into an entertainment destination. Offering flawless integration with any other Diamond 12 Series model, Diamond 12.C utilizes the power and technology wrought by two five-inch Klarity drivers and a one-inch soft-dome tweeter. The two-way design also benefits form-follows-function architecture in which Intelligent Spot Bracing connects opposite walls with a custom, computer-modeled wood brace to reduce resonance – and not transfer it from side to another. As the focal point for surround in a series that has literally redefined what's possible from budget-friendly speakers for more than 30 years, Diamond 12.C will make you a believer in high-end audio and the differences it makes on how – and what – you hear. Time to break out the candy and extra butter. 100% Music Direct Guaranteed.

New Klarity cone material for the drivers, formulated from a blend of polypropylene and mica, adds stiffness to reduce flexing, enabling a lightweight cone with high rigidity, low coloration, and fast response. The Klarity cone is fitted with a low-damping surround, thereby achieving both low colouration and expressive dynamics. By simulating many different cone shapes and adding ribs to provide further stiffening, a flat response curve was achieved without resorting to a high-damping surround, thereby striking an ideal balance.

A precision-made magnet system with an aluminum compensation ring is employed to minimize the effect of variations in inductance as the voice coil travels. This contributes to an ab