The center of your home-audio experience
When you're piecing together a custom home theater surround sound system, it's easy to get overly excited about the surround sound effects reproduction offered by the front- and rear-channel speakers. And then there's the deep, rumbling of the subwoofer that's sure to wow your friends. In other words, it's easy to overlook one of the most important surround sound components: the center-channel speaker. Often overshadowed by floorstanders, bookshelf speakers, and subwoofers, the center-channel is responsible for delivering movie dialogue and music vocals, as well as some front-channel effects. Sounds expendable? Hardly. Without the center-channel speaker, how on earth would you hear what anyone was saying as gun barrels report and bombs detonate all around in your favorite action flick? Or how would you hear the crucial clue spoken in a whodunit mystery? The answer is: you wouldn't. Enter the RS 244C, part of Boston Acoustics' Reflection series. The RS 244C combines four 4.0" woofers and a single 1.0" tweeter enhanced by innovative Boston Acoustics technologies to reproduce a wide bandwidth of sounds, from crisp high-frequencies to deep, controlled bass audio. Placed on a cabinet or shelf beneath your HDTV, the RS 244C reproduces movie dialogue and music lyrics with clarity, detail, and nuance, so that you don't miss a word. Further, the RS 244C's high-gloss black lacquer finish not only delivers years of elegance with its scratch-resistant properties, but also adds a modern accent to your listening area.
Driving your listening experience
Any high-performance loudspeaker represents the intersection of a variety of advanced design features, ranging from crossover circuitry to enclosure construction. But let's be honest: when we get down to the heart of the matter, it's a speaker's drivers that ultimately deliver the sound we hear. And Boston Acoustics makes no sacrifice in the design of the RS 244C's tweeter and woofer drivers. First, the single 1.0" tweeter uses Extended Wide Bandwidth (EWB) technology to deliver stabilized linear motion, low distortion, expanded dispersion, improved power handling, and enhanced clarity. The secret to EWB performance is a dimpled central-diaphragm termination and rear-chamber venting; the result is rich, nuanced high-frequency audio output. Second, each of the RS 244C's four 4.0" woofer drivers features Fiber Ceramic Copolymer Material (FCCM) construction. By blending fiber and ceramic materials and melding them into a proprietary copolymer, and then adding Deep Channel Design technology, Boston Acoustics is able to produce a smooth response over the entire operating range. The result is deep, powerful bass and full, subtle mid-range audio, all with minimal distortion. Boston Acoustics drives your listening experience.
Baffling performance
True, the RS 244C's drivers deserve a lot of attention. But, as we began by saying earlier, no loudspeaker is so one-dimensional — a variety of factors influence a speaker's ultimate level of performance. Complementing the advanced driver design, the RS 244C also sports an innovative enclosure design and driver configuration. While the RS 244C's baffle, or speaker enclosure, features a smooth surface and invisible hardware, its most compelling element is its Super Linear Plane (SLP) design which nearly eliminates acoustic diffraction. Further, super-shallow grilles using an invisible magnetic attachment create an almost entirely seamless alignment with the front baffle plane, significantly reducing sonic barriers. As a result, you hear equally pristine audio, whether the grille is on or off. Coupled with the RS 244C's tightly spaced driver placement, SLP technology achieves near-point-source sonic coherence, wide dispersion, and astonishing imaging.
MagnaGuard
All of the components in your home theater system use electricity. They use it for power and for audio and video signal transmission. Accordingly, they all emit some amount of electromagnetic radiation. Because speakers operate using large magnets and require large amounts of power to reproduce sound, their output of electromagnetic energy can potentially interfere with the signals being used by other components. Ensuring seamless integration in to your home A/V system, the folks at Boston Acoustics have designed the RS 244C with MagnaGuard magnetic shielding, protecting other A/V components from electromagnetic interference.
Going for gold
Ensuring high-conductivity and low-corrosivity for high-performance, enduring audio reproduction, the Boston Acoustics RS 244C speaker uses gold-plating on its five-way binding-post inputs. Further, by offering dual binding-post pairs, the RS 244C allows for versatile home-theater installations using bi-wiring or bi-amping configurations.
The finishing touches — cables
Go one step further in your quest to reach the pinnacle of home audio. A high-performance floorstanding speaker like the RS 244C can only help your home audio system reach its full potential if it is receiving a quality, high-integrity audio signal. Audio cables — chosen specifically for the needs of your system — deliver the ability to maximize your RS 244C's potential. View the accessories list attached to the RS 244C at Vanns.com or call a Vann's customer service representative at the 800 number at the top of this page for assistance in selecting the right set of cables.
