Ok, so right off the bat I'll admit I'm out of my element in trying to select speakers and could use a little help as I don't know where to start. So here's my situation. I've had Cambridge Soundworks Movie Works 5.1 fronts and surrounds and "Center Stage" center for years. I replaced a dead CSW Sub with an AV123 MFW-15 a while ago. The receiver I have is a Yamaha RXV-595.
We redecorated our family room and as luck would have it it gives me an excuse to upgrade my older Panasonic Plasma with something bigger/better. At the same time I'd like to upgrade the speaker system as music always sounded like crap with this system, although for theater, it was decent (at least for me).
The goal here is to significantly improve our music listening experience while maintaining or improving our home theater experience. So what I'd like to do is upgrade to a decent pair of Floor standing speakers while possibly maintaining my center and surrounds, but I'm not at all opposed to upgrading them either. The surrounds I had never did much for me one way or the other but I was always happy with the Center. I love the MFW-15 even though 8 months after I bought it that dude was indicted. So long as it stays healthy I'll keep it.
Budget wise I could spend what ever I want but I'm thinking I would like to keep the cost of the upgrade between $1000-$1500 if possible. $1000 or under if I'm talking just the pair of floor standing fronts, ~$1500 if I upgrade other components
Any suggestions as to a decent pair of floor standing speakers I might want to consider? Are there other options besides floor standing? Am I wasting my time trying to retain any of the existing speakers I have?
Also, size matters for the floor standing speakers, I'd like to keep them south of 40" tall.
Any and all opinions are welcome. Thanks.
We redecorated our family room and as luck would have it it gives me an excuse to upgrade my older Panasonic Plasma with something bigger/better. At the same time I'd like to upgrade the speaker system as music always sounded like crap with this system, although for theater, it was decent (at least for me).
The goal here is to significantly improve our music listening experience while maintaining or improving our home theater experience. So what I'd like to do is upgrade to a decent pair of Floor standing speakers while possibly maintaining my center and surrounds, but I'm not at all opposed to upgrading them either. The surrounds I had never did much for me one way or the other but I was always happy with the Center. I love the MFW-15 even though 8 months after I bought it that dude was indicted. So long as it stays healthy I'll keep it.
Budget wise I could spend what ever I want but I'm thinking I would like to keep the cost of the upgrade between $1000-$1500 if possible. $1000 or under if I'm talking just the pair of floor standing fronts, ~$1500 if I upgrade other components
Any suggestions as to a decent pair of floor standing speakers I might want to consider? Are there other options besides floor standing? Am I wasting my time trying to retain any of the existing speakers I have?
Also, size matters for the floor standing speakers, I'd like to keep them south of 40" tall.
Any and all opinions are welcome. Thanks.