ACOUSTIC REPRODUCTION DEVICE

An acoustic reproduction device includes first speaker units 12 and 15 that emit sound in an inward direction and second speaker units 13 and 16 that emit sound in a forward or outward direction. The first speaker units are arranged at positions symmetrical with respect to a listening center axis, and so are second speaker units. The device further includes first and second processing units that process center channel signals as signals for the first and the second speaker units, respectively Front channel signals are superimposed on an output signal of the second processing unit. The first processing unit includes a HPF 33 and a first high-shelf block 34 for boosting a high-range component. The second processing unit includes an LPF 38, a low-shelf block 36 for attenuating a low-range component, and a second high-shelf block 37 for attenuating a high-range component. Center channel reproduction sounds arriving from the first speaker unit and the second speaker unit that are closer to a listening position are destructive to each other in the mid-range owing to a phase difference therebetween. It is possible to expand a listening position range where the center sound image localization can be achieved, and to integrate a center speaker into a front speaker system.