The SE Center on the other hand is almost in a class by itself. I find myself sounding a little like a broken record here, but Paradigm's now tried and true configuration changes not from model to model with good reason: it just plain works. It could be argued that the SE Center is higher performance than even the SE3 in that it is a true 3 way design, and as such the "money" is going where it is needed most: even in this day of 7.1 uncompressed or lossless sound, that ONE channel, the center, is still responsible for 90% of the soundtrack. Better to have nothing but a top shelf center than a full 7.1 setup which sounds like paper cups I say. The SE Center delivers in spades in that I don't have superlatives for you. In actually using them, impressions boil down to how much I "thought" about the speaker, and less is definitely more in that only if something is wrong should I notice or even think about the speaker. Not once did I "notice" the SE Center, testament to the fact that it skews the sound not one iota, and instead just presents what is there in the soundtrack. We can ask no more of a speaker.