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KEF iQ9: Main Speakers
KEF iQ6c: Center
KEF PSW2500: Sub
KEF iQ1: Surround
Yamaha RV 1105: Receiver

I would suggest voice matching your center to your mains before replacing your surrounds. Unless you are happy with the klipsch and not happy with the realistics.

a pair of JBL nd31011 towers, 1 paradigm pdr 10 10" subwoofer, pair of mirage omnisat speakers with a JVC vbk 9010 5channel receiver. I might add this receiver has
the usb input that I use along with my Mac G 4 tower. The USB connection bypasses
the internal sound on the computer and uses the Burr-Brown(internal sound source from the receiver) which my mac automatically recognizes. I have an Itunes library of almost 20000 songs in mpg format that I play through this system.
I am very happy with this set-up.

Fronts-Vandersteen 3A

Center-Snell HCC-500 (tweeters are the same as the 3A's and matches very well)

Rears-Wharfedale evolution surround (bipoles)

LFE sub-Velodyne HGS15

Front sub-Vandersteen 2W (used sometimes to add extra lows)

My system consists of---Mains- Cerwin Vega V-10s, Center- Cerwin Vega V-5C, Surrounds -Bose cubes, Rear Surrounds- Cerwin Vega V5Ms, and an Infinity PS-12 Sub and all are powered by an Onkyo 504. Jim

my current setup is as rigged as u can get.

Reciever: POS Onkyo Reciever/5 disc dvd changer combo (total garbage, doesnt play anything anymore so its now just a reciever)
Fronts: Pair of Sony 3ways that came from an old shelf system
Center: dont have one
Rears: Pair of Kenwood cubes that came from a bottom of the line HTB.
Subs: i alternate between an ascendant audio 12" atlas and a pair of resonant engineering XXX 6.5's. both get their power from a 250 watt plate amp.

keep in mind, im still in college and piecing stuff together. when my tax return comes in, ill be replacing the reciever with either a yamaha 5960 or a panny xr57 and replacing my front stage with Ascend or HTD speakers.

Polk RT-I10 Fronts
Polk CSI-5 Centre
Dalquist QX-8 Rears
Infinity HPS-1000 Sub
Im very impressed with the sound especially since ive added the sub.....The crossover is seamless and ive never had the gain more than four
Next on the list is the Apollo.........does it ever end ??????????

I have 2 , 3A Reference towers ( Adagio). Outside I have Paradigm Stylus and Niles OS10. Computer is using Klipsch 3way THX system. Basement AV is piecemeal with JBL l/r bookshelf, Infinity center, JBL powered sub, Radio shack rears.
Not many 3A's around here.

We'll see if anybody reallly reads this.



Fronts: Infinity Intermezzo 4.1 driven by Van Alstine Ultimate 70 tube amp
Center: Infintiy Intermezzo C3.5
Sub: VMPS (older driven by a Sony TAE 9000 amp in BTL mode)
Rears: Dynaudio Gemini (much too good for this duty)
Reciever: Sherwood Newcastle R-965, took me a little while to get this figured out but am now very impressed with it.
Samsung modified universal player

Oh and just for grins a 47" Westinghouse 1080p LCD monitor.

Lots of fun down in the basement.



Simon

Hi Simon,

I read it but as soon as I see Tube amp ( though Im not familiar with your grouping) I sense more of a Media room where music doesn;t take a back seat.

If I'm correct, I took a similar dirrection with HIRES audio being 35-40% another 40% would be video. The remaining activities are HTPC oriented but the only articles evident would be the RF Mse/kB which communicate to the office next door.

My main Front L/R are Totem Mani 2-Sigs.

I was chastised by the gentleman I purchased them from, (an admitted Analog Purist) when I mentioned that a Denon 5803 was the main processor of my grouping.
It did not seem to make any difference to his opinion that I was aware of the power needs of the Mani's back to back woofers which at 4ohms & Sensitivity 85, that a Bryston 4b Pro would be powering the Mani's woofers.

Regarless, that Totem Model 1 and Totem Sig Center X 2 with the second doning EX/ES duties allowed for what many would call a matched grouping, comfortable in any environment.

The inroduction of an Audio Video Receiver was an insult to the Mani-2s.

I e-mailed him reviews of the Denon from as detailed and unbiased as I felt there are in the industry like Audioholics & Secrets.

NO DICE, He was intransigent.

Well Simon, when I read your comment I assumed that you expected a question , compliment or criticism from "those who really know". My letting offof steam is admittedly self serving and blatently exposes my naievite of the High End, but I did read it and hope you enjoy your choces as much as I enjoy mine.

Peter M.

B&W 703 (2) Front
B&W HTM7 Center
B&W DS6 (2) Side Surround
B&W CWM650 (2) Rear Surround
Velodyne SPL 1200 Series II
Roetl RSX 1067
Rotel RB 1080 200 x 2 Power Amp

Hello all.

KEF KHT 3005
60" Sony SXRD (A2000)
Pioneer Elite VSX 82

I am looking to add a pair of floor standing speakers (preferably KEF) to upgrade to 7.1. Any ideas for around $600 pair??

All Paradigm system:

Fronts: Reference Studio 20
Center: Reference Studio CC-470
Rears: Mini Monitors
Sub: PS-1000
(all v.3)

Receiver: Arcam AVR300
DVD: Arcam DV78
Other: Xbox 360 + HD-DVD Add-on

You might want to check out AV123 x-series http://www.**********/products_catego...akers&brand=55 as you can try them out in your home for 30 days.

JBL S38-Mains
JBL S-center
JBL S26-Surrounds
JBL S26-Rears
SVS 20-39PC++ Sub*
(++12.3 Woofer upgrade)


Receiver-Pioneer Elite VSX-47TX
HDTV-Sony KDP-57WS655
DVD-Denon 2910

Future Upgrade to Klipsch Speakers.

L/R: JMLab Cobalt 816
C: JMLab Cobalt C800
Surrounds: Polk f/x300i
Sub: Hsu VTF-2 MKIII

bose 901 series 6 mains with bose center channel and bose 301 for surrounds and home made 12" cerwin vega sub all powered by harmon kardon amps

Front L/C/R: Cambridge Soundworks MC300s
Surrounds: CSW S300s
Subwoofers: CSW P500 + P200
Receiver: Marantz SR5500
DVD/CD Player: Marantz DV6600

Jamo from Denmark
Center- D5CEN
Front Right and Left- D 590's
Right and Left Surrounds- D 5SUR
Rear Right and Left Surrounds- E 6SUR
Subwoofer- 2- E 6SUB

All in Cherry wood.

I have a set of Z5500' connected to a PS3 via Toslink, and SONY DVD player over COAX, all paired to a 1080p 37" Monitor. For the price I paid for these, I couldn't ask for more. The price/performance of these speakers is impressive.

My jaw dropped when I fully powered on the PEARL HARBOR MOVIE IN DTS @ 7boost volume I think my neighboors got quiet all of a sudden...

Set of 1977 that is the year..of Realistic Mach One speakers they are all
original and still rock as hard as the day I bought them...and yes that means
that I'am an old rocker and still crank it to 11.....Keep Rockin...

Display: Sony KDF55WF655 55in LCD Rear Projection
CableBox: Motorola HD DVR QIP-6416 with Verizon FiOS
DVD Player: Sony DVP-NS41P (cheap model ... waiting for BD/HDDVD format war to die)
Digital Music1: Slimdevices Squeezebox v3
Digital Music2: 5thGen 30gig iPod in AVR dock
AVR: Onkyo TX-SR604S
Center Speaker: B&W LCR60 S3, black
L/R Speakers: B&W DM602 S3, black
Surround Speakers: Polk Atrium45's
Sub: HSU VTF-2mk3

Home Theater

Samsung 71" DLP
Front speakers - Sonus Faber Concertos
AV receiver- Marantz SR4000

Looking to upgrade rear speakers. Using small Toshiba surrounds from a previous rear projection TV.

Music setup

Speakers - Spendor BC-1
Power Amp - Audio Research D-60
Pre-amp - Conrad Johnson PV-5
NAD tuner
Pioneer Elite CD Player
B & O turntable

Front: Klipsch RB-75
Center: Klipsch RC-35
Surrounds: Klipsch RS-35
Sub: HSU VTF3-Mk2

Pioneer CS-B9000's. I like the days of big speaker that produce BASS. Nowadays, the trend is tiny speakers and a subwoofer. Doesn't look very impressive. LONG LIVE THE LARGE FLOORSTANDING SPEAKERS!

Paradigm Monitor 5's front,
CC-370 center,
ADP-370's surround,
SVS PB12-NSD/2 Sub,
Energy EXL-S10 Sub,
Yamaha RXV-659 Receiver,

(and Toshiba HD-XA1, Oppo OPDV971H, JVC 61HD97)

Life is good!
Pete

Hello everyone - and thanks to all the regulars who make avsforum so incredibly useful.

My setup
Samsung 50" 720p DLP
Pioneer VSX-1015TX
Front- Klipsch F-3 x 2
Center- Klipsch C-2
Surround- Klipsch S-3 x 4
Sub- Klipsch Sub-10
DVD Player- mediocre Sony - waiting to replace with HD-DVD or Blu-Ray

Pretty low-end stuff I suppose, but I've been enourmously pleased with the home theater performance compared to my previous even-lower end set-ups

Jack

Display: Sony VPL-VW50 projecting onto a 108" DIY screen
Receiver: Yamaha RX-V2700
Front Speakers: Ascend 340se L/C/R
Surrounds: 2 pair of Ascend 170se
Subwoofer: HSU VTF-3 MK3
Extra: Buttkicker LFE kit

Hi, all, I'm new here!

As of this very moment, we have:

JBL CST55 X 4 for front and rear towers
JBL CSC55 Center
JBL CSS55 Sub.

Pioneer VSX-81TXV receiver.

A little concerned, one of the CS Towers rattled when we moved it....hubby is returning it as I type. We tested these at Tweeter, and after looking at a ton of options, this was just the best deal for what we wanted and the sound was quite nice. H. H. Gregg was closing them out at $200 less than we'd been seeing them anywhere else. I was shocked that the Klipsch we listened to sounded very similar, we expected a big difference, but when we saw the price drop, we let our budget make the decision. Now we have a great receiver!

Still gonna check around on the forums though... Hope these work out well, but the ones we tested sounded great. Strange, though, going from an old 12in speaker to something so small...We wanted 7.1 but at the moment we are not in our dream media room, so we hope to expand someday. AND if we don't get the rattle fixed, out the door they go! I hope it's just a fluke.

Sort of new here as well... I just lurk mostly .

At the moment:
Klipsch RB-35 Fronts
Klipsch RC-35 Center
Klipsch RS-35 Surrounds
No Sub

Pioneer VSX-1016TXV Receiver... it's quite the combo for just a bedroom.