[golfaddict]

I need to get 7 speakers for a room that is 20ft x 45ft and about 14 ft ceiling.


ALL 7 speakers need to be small as they will be hanging from the ceiling.

NO BOSE please.


Budget = 900.00


Good sound is paramount, due the size of the room and the height of the ceiling. Sub, to be bought at a later date.



Please give me some suggestions.


Thanks in advance.

 

[JasonColeman]

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Originally posted by golfaddict Budget = 900.00...Good sound is paramount...

Yeah, for 7 speakers this statement is an oxymoron. You're looking at spending less than 130 bucks per speaker...for "paramount sound" it ain't gonna happen. Reconsider your needs and/or your budget.


J.

 

[TrojanHorse]

That's a daggum big room too, and you want the (small) speakers hanging 14 feet in the air? Hmm...

 

[sethwas]

$900 for 7 speakers which means no sub.

You must want 2 floorstanders up front and 2 floorstanders in rear, and bookshelves for the last 2. That isn't going to happen.

It will probably be easier to get bookshelves all around at this budget.

So its 6 bookshelves and 1 center channel.

Splurge on the center. Figure $150 for the center. Or you could get 2 small floorstanders for the front because if you get some model lines they will be only $100 or so for bookshelves which will give you $500 to play with for the 3 main front speakers.

Obviously the mix and match can go on.

There are alot of speaker companies, and all their products sound different. Some people like the sound of lesser expensive speakers in a line, its not all about cost. Just fish around names on the internet in froogle.com to get an idea of cost and work with that.

For example I hit this on my first result:
http://store.yahoo.com/rav/homtheatsys.html


Seth

 

[golfaddict]

I know that 900.00 is a low number for good small speakers for such a big room.


BUT, this speakers are for my INLAWS, and that is the budget that they gave me for spkrs. My HT is already finished.


The reason why they want them hanging ffrom the ceiling is so that the spkrs dont take any space from their big room.


They had this room prewired when it was being built.



I just dont want to buy BOSE, which seems to fit within their budget.




I will look at froggle.


any other suggestions??

 

[sethwas]

Monitor B2 series are like $115 and change each.

Paradigm Cinema series or stylus.

Athena may be too expensive except their HTIB which don't come in 7.1

Same for Axiom

Klipsch cinema 10 or quintet. Maybe if you can find a set of their bookshelves cheap. Any of their smaller synergy or reference line. Still may be expensive though.

Yamaha NS-333. Or http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/H...S_packages.htm

JBL northridge bookshelves.

Anything by Fluance.

Infinity Primus, or the smallest Alphas.

Sapphire Audio is at the high end of that budget.

Wharfedale should compete nicely with the infinity or polk systems.

Polk you can look into. Their pricing is ballpark.

Energy speakers are at the high end of the budget.

Aperion Audio makes a 7.1 package and I'm sure you could ask to leave out the sub and it would be ever so slightly out of budget.

PSB speakers are also at the high end of your budget.


Sony, bose, kenwood, pioneer, panasonic, cerwin vega, KLH, audiovox, Pyle, Technics, Acoustic Research, Jensen, I'm leaving out.



Boston Acoustics, Sonus Faber, Vienna Acoustics, Pinnacle, Niles, NHT, are all too expensive.


Since this is for your in laws, unless they know from home theater any of these speakers will blow them away. So find the one that matches their decor the best or is physically the most impressive.

The Aperion setup seems to be the best set to match your price range. Just get all bookshelves instead of floorstanders and leave out the sub.


Seth

 

[filecat13]

You can get eight JBL Control Series Control1Extreme speakers for about $800. That's one more than you need, but they're sold in pairs. That leaves you $100 to buy a used sub off eBay.


The Controls have an 80-20kz range, so a sub is necessary, but these little gems will fill that room for you. They're small, easy to mount, and they're tough.