NHT Classic Three C: It's time to get centered

Designed to fill even the largest rooms with full, accurate sound, the NHT Three C is the ideal center speaker for high performance multi-channel music and movies.

* 3-way design offers broader soundfield and much better frequency response than 2-way models
* Dual 6.5” aluminum cone woofers for deep bass and wide dispersion
* NHT’s new midrange/tweeter assembly provides a larger listening area, lower distortion, and higher power handling

The most important speaker in your system
The center channel is the foundation of your speaker system. For movie soundtracks, it produces most of the dialogue plus music and special effects, and for multi-channel music it’s generally responsible for reproducing vocals and the whole gamut of musical instruments. That’s why the engineers at NHT have pored all their considerable know-how into the Three C.

Optimized for use with the Three and Four, the Three C uses a 3-way design with two 6.5” aluminum cone woofers and NHT’s new midrange/tweeter assembly to create a huge listening area, resulting in a much broader “sweet spot” than that of conventional 2-way designs.

While there are a lot of 2-way, three-driver center speakers out there, their design is really more about creating a low profile speaker than one that’s really suited for center channel use. A 2-way center’s frequency response changes greatly as the listener moves away from the cabinet’s center, creating a clearly audible dip in the critical midrange. NHT’s 3-way design eliminates this huge dip, ensuring that every seat in your home theater is the best seat in the house.

Two drivers on one plate
By using a unique tweeter/midrange assembly that mounts two low-distortion drivers close together on a single plate, NHT has created a speaker with a larger listening area, lower distortion, and higher power handling than previous designs.

Walking on air
Ideal for music and home theater systems in small to medium sized rooms, the Two C incorporates an acoustic suspension design that use nature’s perfect spring force — air — to control the cone motion instead of a heavy, unpredictable mechanical suspension. It takes a little more amplifier power to do an acoustic suspension design justice, but the greatly decreased distortion, deeper bass response, and increased detail are well worth it.

The perfect frames
The 6.5” woofers feature frames made from BMC (Bulk Molding Compound). Designers usually have to choose between inexpensive, mechanically sound materials such as ABS plastic and stamped steel, or expensive materials such as cast aluminum or magnesium that are ideal mechanically and acoustically. BMC is the best of both worlds: a cost-effective material that is immensely stiff, and easily shaped into acoustically ideal forms.

Acoustically sound, environmentally friendly — and affordable
NHT makes its cabinets with MDF, a board manufactured primarily of wood residues from the production of lumber and plywood, with a low percentage of virgin tree wood. The cabinets are hand-finished with 7 coats of polyurethane which is applied in a “solid particle” method that’s safe for the environment. This finish is then sealed with 2 coats of automotive grade clear-coat to protect the cabinet for years.

By using materials such as MDF and avoiding exotic wood veneers in the construction of their cabinets, NHT makes acoustically sound, furniture-grade cabinets that are environmentally friendly and affordable to produce.

Highlights
+ 3-way acoustic suspension design
+ Dual 6.5” aluminum cone woofers
+ NHT’s new midrange/tweeter assembly, with two drivers on one plate
+ Frequency Response: 73Hz-20kHz,
+ Sensitivity: 87dB (2.83v@1m)
+ Impedance: 8? nominal,
+ Dimensions: 7”/178 mm x 21.825”/556 mm x 8.25” /210 mm
+ Weight: 23 lbs./10.4 kg each