Beautiful, Understated NHT Center Speaker in High Gloss SC1
$245.00
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Beautiful, Understated NHT Center Speaker in High Gloss Black
NHT’s Super Series is your affordable ticket to high-end home theater sound, and the SC1 plays a crucial role in bringing your favorite movies to thrilling, three-dimensional life. This sleek center channel speaker is voice-matched to all other models in NHT’s Super Series, assuring seamless integration for all surround applications — including up-and-coming multichannel music formats like DVD-Audio and SACD.
The SC1 features a 1″ aluminum tweeter for crystal-clear highs, flanked by two 4-1/2″ polypropylene woofers for smooth, natural mids and lows. The acoustic suspension enclosure helps the SC1 achieve its musical accuracy and tight bass response. Finished in an attractive high-gloss black lacquer.
Details:
Video-shielded
Frequency response 78-22,000 Hz (±3dB)
8-ohm impedance
Sensitivity 86 dB
Handles up to 150 watts
5-way binding post connectors
High-gloss black lacquer finish
Dimensions: 16-9/16″W x 5-11/16″H x 6-11/16″D
Weight: 11 lbs (5.0 kg)
Asking $245 for this great looking (and sounding) Center speaker from Now Hear This (NHT)
| Weight | 13 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 11 × 21 × 10 in |
NHT was founded in Benicia, California, in 1986 by Chris Byrne and engineer Ken Kantor, and the name stands for Now Hear This. We carry NHT bookshelf speakers, towers, centre channels and subwoofers. We've had more than 40 NHT listings so far, covering more than 25 different models. Every used NHT here is inspected, tested and serviced as required, then photographed in-house and covered by our Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and Perpetual Trade-Back Program. Don't see the model you want? Tell us on First Dibs and we'll email you when one arrives.
The NHT models we've sold most often include the Three and SuperOne bookshelf speakers, the SW2 and Ten subwoofers and the 2.9 tower.
The NHT story
Chris Byrne, who had been Pioneer Electronics' vice-president of marketing, and engineer Ken Kantor, whose career had taken in Acoustic Research, Boston Acoustics and NAD, founded NHT in Benicia, California, in 1986. Its speakers were known for front baffles angled at 21 degrees, which NHT called Focused Image Geometry.
Jensen and Rockford. In 1990 NHT was sold to International Jensen, which also owned AR and Advent and let NHT keep its design independence. The four-way 3.3 flagship followed in the early 1990s, Kantor left in 1997 after designing the 2.9 tower, and by 2004 NHT was part of Rockford Corporation.
Today. Secrets of Home Theater calls the Classic Three of the mid-2000s NHT's best-selling model, and the C Series followed it. NHT is still based in Benicia, making acoustic-suspension and in-ceiling speakers. Chris Byrne died in December 2025.
Which NHT is which?
Original Model line (late 1980s to early 1990s): from the Model 1 to the four-way 3.3, with slim baffles angled at 21 degrees.
2.9 tower (by 1997): Ken Kantor's last NHT design, with separate terminals for bi-amplifying its woofers.
Super series: the SuperZero, SuperOne and SuperTwo, often paired with the SW2 subwoofer.
Subwoofers: the SW2 with its MA-1A amplifier, and the Classic Ten and Classic Twelve.
VT home theatre towers: such as the VT-1 and VT-3.
Classic Series (mid-2000s to 2016) and C Series: including the Classic Three.
Buying used NHT: what to check
Stabilizer bars and spikes. NHT towers such as the VT-3 and SuperTwo rely on stabilizer bars or spikes, so check they come with the pair.
Amplifier match. NHT says underpowered amplifiers are the most common cause of speaker damage, so check the tweeters on any pair that ran on a small receiver.
Subwoofer amps. If an MA-1A's front light doesn't come on, an internal fuse may have blown. On a Classic Ten or Twelve, check that the line-voltage setting is 120 V.
Baffle foam. The original angled models have anti-diffraction foam strips on the baffle, so check they are there.
Everything we list is inspected, tested and serviced as required here, and comes with our warranty.
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