Energy Takes or JBL Lofts or Jamo S606

You could get way more out of the JBL towers than the little Take Classics. Your Takes have a 3" woofer and a 1" tweeter in a very small cabinet.

The JBL 50 has two 6.5" woofers, three 4" midrange drivers and a 1" tweeter is a much larger cabinet. That's not even a fair comparison.

The loft 20 center and Loft 30 surrounds are also bigger than the Take counter parts. I'd exchange those speakers in a heartbeat.

From the first picture I saw you may want to throw an area rug over your hardwood floor the lessen the reflections of the room too.

The Klipsch KW-100 is the same as the Energy EW-100. They both have a 55 watt amp, 225 w peak.

The ESW-C10 is a step up from both those subs. 150w amp, 400 watt peak.

they're going to be better sounding because they have larger and more drivers which will sound fuller than the little Take speakers.

Buy the JBL's, bring them home and test them vs the Takes. Then bring back the loser. that way you'll know for sure.

Many people have had great luck with the Jamo S606

I'd take the Jamos over the other two.

Remember to rerun Audyssey with each system. You definitely wont be able to use your current Take Classic settings with either system and vice versa.

Well, if you have your speakers set to small the receiver will not have to handle the lower frequencies and passes those on to the powered sub. That should help a bit. Also a larger sub would help too. Get a good 10" or 12" subwoofer.

The Jamo's are 6 ohm which puts a little more stress on your receiver and have a sensitivity of 89db for the towers and 87db for the center and surrounds. If you were to get higher sensitivity speakers say 93db of more it would take half the volume to sound as loud as the Jamos.

But will they sound as good? That's another question.

Then again maybe you're used to distortion which appears louder than clean clear sound.

How did the JBL's sound?
Edited by afrogt - 1/20/13 at 4:53pm

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