88-Special Home Theater Speaker Kit with Flat Pack Cabinet

The 88-Special speaker kit for home theater use.

The original idea behind the 88 Special was to design a shallow 9" deep high output speaker that could be used as a center channel with some of the larger home theater speakers. We needed to use a powerful compression driver that could handle lower crossover points but still produce a smooth, non-fatiguing upper frequency range. The speaker had to be easily powered by virtually any receiver on the market, but still handle higher wattage from an external amplifier if needed. This concept worked out so well that many people used them not just for their center channel, but also for left, right, and surround sound speakers. The two 8" woofers produce a very high sensitivity speaker while still maintaining an easy to power 8 ohm load for your receiver. The SEOS-15 allows for a low crossover point between the woofers and compression driver. That gives the side by side 8” woofers excellent directivity at the lower frequency and allows the woofers to match up very well to the directivity of the large waveguide.

You end up with a great polar response and a very wide “sweet spot” so that everyone hears the same thing without any significant changes in sound wherever they sit or move around in the room. Very few speakers can match the directivity of the SEOS-15 waveguide. Quality name brand professional components are used in all parts of this speaker kit. The custom Celestion compression driver stays surprisingly smooth and detailed even at high output levels for a very well balanced sound. All of that gets installed in a 'knock down' style flat pack cabinet that you can glue together very easily. The 88-Special speaker kits will handle 450 watts and play at over 120db. Designed for home theater use and should be paired with a powerful subwoofer system for best sound quality.  We would normally recommend pairing these high output speakers with at least two 18" subwoofers or more. These speakers can keep up with just about any subwoofer system.

Speaker Highlights

• Very detailed sound with superb dynamics.
• Easy to power with a true 97.5db 2.83v/meter sensitivity.
• Handles 450 watts and plays over 120db.
• Quality name brand components throughout entire speaker.
• Low distortion from the woofer and compression driver.
• SEOS-15 waveguide gives you a larger 'sweet spot'.
• Easy to assemble carb 2 compliant MDF flat pack cabinet included.
• Compression drivers professionally tested for matched sets per order.

88-Special Speaker Kit Specifications

Quality Control: Every compression driver gets a professional 5 point quality inspection test before we package your kits. We also frequency match them so that your set of speakers all sound the same. We don't know of any other retailer that completes this level of quality control. We do this because you probably don't have the testing gear or parameters for all of these tests. Because of this type of quality control it can take longer than a week to package and ship your speaker kits.

88-Special Kit Parts

Ordering Note: Kits are sold as full kits, sorry no substitutions or subtractions. This kit includes the flat pack cabinet but they are now being packaged and shipped differently. They are priced at cost ($38.03 each) and because of this they can't be shipped "for free". During check out the site will calculate shipping costs for just the flat packs, the other parts ship for free.