Magnepan CCR Center Channel Speakers

The center channel that finally keeps up with a pair of full-range Maggies.

In a home theater, the center channel does most of the heavy lifting — 60 to 70% of the dialogue and effects run through it, yet most center speakers are squeezed by video placement constraints into a compromised, undersized box. The CCR was built specifically to avoid that trap: it uses the same true ribbon tweeter and quasi-ribbon midrange technology as Magnepan's reference 20.7 floorstander, curved to fit a center channel form factor without sacrificing the speed and clarity that makes a full Maggie system worth having.

That matters more than it might seem, because a mismatched center channel is the fastest way to break the illusion of a movie's soundstage — dialogue from a slow, boxy center speaker sitting awkwardly between two fast planar mains. The CCR's 213 square inches of quasi-ribbon midrange radiating area was purpose-built for higher efficiency to handle home theater's demands, and pairing it with Magnepan's CC Speaker Stand or DWM Bass Panels extends it into genuinely full-range Maggie performance for the most important channel in the room.

If you own 3.7i or 20.7 mains and don't want the center channel to be the weak link, this is the speaker built to match them.