Seymour Screens

Center Stage XD

After three years of development, the new Center Stage XD is the overall best performing acoustically transparent screen available at any price. We tripled the hole density, raised the gain a little, improved the audio by +0.5dB, and reduced the minimum seating and speaker distances. No other acoustically transparent screen fabric on the market offers as high a gain (1.2), balanced with such a high level of acoustical transparency (1.5dB average attenuation above 8kHz), fine texture (1,500+ holes per square inch) and price. The perforated vinyls can get higher gain but ruin the audio, require an EQ and have such visually unacceptable hole patterns that A.T. screens often suffer a terrible reputation. Woven screens typically keep the audio in tact, but have lower gains and/or visually intrusive 2 x 2 thread patterns. When video AND audio performance are considered, the new Center Stage XD material is the best performer, anywhere.

Center Stage audio performance

Acoustically transparent (AT) projection screens are now uniquely able to maintain the quality of your projected image and rid your home theater of the acoustic distortion that a television or fixed frame screen would impose. AT screens do not acoustically reflect, refract, or otherwise smear the imaging of your speakers. The majority of your sound comes from the center channel, and with an acoustically transparent screen the sound will come from behind the image, not from the floor or ceiling. You no longer have to be limited to the traditional horizontal MTM center speaker, and can alleviate the comb filtering (horizontal lobing) across your seating positions caused by having the same frequencies reproduced by multiple horizontal drivers. An easy fix is that you could turn your speaker vertically for improved frequency response performance across your theater, or even better, you could use a center channel that is identical to your left and right speakers.