Which speakers would pair well with a Denon 5805?

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I'll pipe in with some thoughts here, first off if your goal is 100% HT and you want great acoustics over a wide listening area, you should consider part of your budget for room treatment. Go over to the "home theater builder" master thread and read some of the stuff and check out some of the links. Also budget on running at least dual subs one for the front and one for the back. (I believe the Denon will allow you to run three; left/right and back. Yummy!!) Don't skimp out here, subs have a dramatic role to play in HT make sure you get good quality.

The Denon looks like an outstanding piece but if $8k is your total budget this might be over the top. There are other less expensive flagship receivers that will sound as good for less dough in a properly treated room. (The treated room will lessen the need for the MultiQ, but it's still a nice feature to have. A lot of the auto room corrections out there now would also yield great results.)

However if you've got $8k just for speakers I really feel sorry for you, you're going to have a hell of time deciding, you're going to get so many differing responses it'll make your head spin.

For HT there are so many great speaker options out there I think has to boil down to your personal preference.

I can't see any speaker in that price range not matching well with a reciever that has so much processing power. You should be able to make whatever you get sound almost any way you want.

As far as what I as what I would reccomend for speakers, I'll throw the Paradigm Signature Series into your head and leave it at that.

Have fun.

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If you were going after a high-end music set-up, I might agree with the salesman. But for a 100% movie HT, the 5805 would be all you would need for a long, long time. I limited my speaker choices to those I could personally audition, and I would recommend that you do the same. If I told you to get a RBH T-1 / T-2P set-up with SA-400 sub amps (by coincidence, the speakers I just bought with your same $8K budget), would you? I think not, so you have to rely on your own ears (and gut) to decide whats right for you.


Besides the aforementioned RBH's, the usual suspects would be B&W, Paradigm Sigs, Dynaudio, Totem, PSB Platinum, Revel, Von Schweirkert, Energy Veritas, Infinity Preludes, Dali Helicons, Triad and others too numerous to mention. The Buying guides from S'phile and others are a good place to start compiling names. Good luck, and let us know what you end up with...


John