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Car Audio Center Channel Speaker

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Car Audio Center Channel Speaker • 150W peak power • removable grille • sensitivity: 85 dB

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Description


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  • Single-DIN car center channel speaker, for in-dash mounting
  • Power Handling:
    • Peak: 150 watts
    • RMS: 50
  • Contains two 1-5/8" x 2" oval midbass drivers and a 1" soft-dome tweeter
  • Removable grille
  • Frequency Response: 150-30,000 Hz
  • Sensitivity: 85 dB
  • 7-1/4"W x 1-15/16"H x 4-9/16"D
  • 30 days SonicElectronix.com warranty

Alpine products are warranted solely by Sonic Electronix, Inc. under the same period and terms as the original Alpine warranty. Sonic Electronix is not an Authorized Alpine Dealer and Alpine requires all merchandise purchased by Sonic Electronix customers to be returned solely to Sonic Electronix. Alpine products are also covered by our Standard Return Policy for returns on exchanges or refunds within 30 days from the date of purchase.

Specifications & Details


Speaker Specifications
Design
Center Channel
Tweeter Design
Soft Dome
Peak Power Handling
150 watts
RMS Power Handling
50 watts
Sensitivity
85 dB
Frequency Response
150 - 30,000 Hz
Warranty and Return Policy
Parts Warranty Duration
1 year
Labor Warranty Duration
1 year
Warranty Provider
Sonic Electronix

Item Details


Manufacturer:

Model Number:

SBS-05DC

Weight:

2.00lbs

Internal SKU:

sbs05dc

Internal Product ID:

6768

Customer Ratings & Reviews



5 star
25%
4 star
50%
3 star
0%
2 star
25%
1 star
0%



Durability
5
Value
4
Features
3.8
Design
4.8
Usability
4.8

Customer Reviews

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not sure if it is worth the money...

This is a central speaker that works in my car 5.1 system on alpine h701 surround processor. Doing surround in your car requires a decision whether make 4.1 system (mix central to L & P speakers) or make it full 5.1. Both approaches have advantages. mixing to 4.1 sounds good. Central channel does not get the distortion from poor central speaker... but you pay with surround feeling.
5.1 builds nicer soudscape (it its really easy to hear) but... you need one more channel on your amps (5ch amps are usually crap, so you need 4 channel + 2 channel and use only 5 of the sum) and you have to go for good central speaker.
Alpine SBS 05DC is far from being good. It limits the bandwidth, high freqs are just poor next to non-existant. If you crank up the volume the speaker box vibrates in the way you just can hear (50Watts amp distorts the speaker badly and the upper wattage range). The efficiency is also questionable. It is just silent compared to the rest of my system.
If you make the installation from the scratch - just ask the intaller to put any midrange speaker in the din formed box and this will probably sound better...
If you just don't care to much -> go for 4.1setup
If you are perfectionist -> do it right, make your custom central

By com4tee on March 18, 2009

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The only way to go for 5.1 in the car!

I've had this centre speaker in my car for 6 months and am really happy with it although a little on the expensive side as all Alpine gear, but hey the quality is there!

Works perfectly and looks great with the IVA-D310 in dash DVD and MRA-F350 5.1 amp and makes good use of an otherwise totally useless 1 din space under the player that are usually filled up with those stupid plastic pockets, yuck!

I would deal with Sonic again without hesitation and have in fact just given their contact details to a mate of mine here in Australia so he can get one of these speakers for his Alpine system as well.

By Webby on April 21, 2009

5

found this helpful.

Best of the center channel solutions.

I'm using this as a center channel for my 2001 Maxima's 5.1 system. It sounds very good for vocals, but obviously lacks any bass so there is a bit of a hole between 80hz and 200hz. I'm using this with a Pioneer AVH-P7500DVD head unit, an Aduiobahn A6601T 6 channel amp, JL Audio components (front), Infinity Kappa Reference (rear), 2x 12" Infinity Kappa Perfects via a Hifonics Brutus 1608D. I bought another Alpine center channel for use in my truck.

By Daniel on July 11, 2008

6

found this helpful.

Alpine center

had a clarion center but it blew out the tweeters after a few months. HTis Alpine center sounds great and is strong so far.

By John on August 3, 2009

4

found this helpful.

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