For "reasonably"-priced speakers, it is hard to go wrong with the Gallo Reference series. They have *excellent* dispersion, top-quality construction, and their Ref AV series are *made* for home theater use. I currently use their Reference 3.qs for my Front L/R, their Ref. AV Cneter for my Center channel, and their Ref. AVs for the surrounds.
The speakers are all timbre-matched, meaning that sound transitiions from side to side and front to back are seamless. Additionally, the Ref AVs mount very discreetly on the walls and, in fact, are designed to use the "boundary effect" afforded by such placement. The bass provided by these is astonishing and the WAF is very high.
I would recommend you purchase something like a Velodyne DD-Series subwoofer to handle the bottom-octave chores. They come with massive digital amps and room-correction software that will tailor their response perfectly to your room's anomalies.
All of these can be purchased from Audiogon gently used. I have about $11k worth of speakers for which I paid less than $5k - and every single one of them still had 80% of the mfgr. warranty still in effect...
I am also reading VERY good things about the Tekton Pendragons and M-Lore speakers as well as the Golden Ear Triton 2s and 3s. Look into these as well as the Gallos. And the new Gallo Classico Series is garnering rave reviews as well.
ANY of the aforementioned speakers lines will provide you with *superb*-quality sound for very reasonable money...
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The speakers are all timbre-matched, meaning that sound transitiions from side to side and front to back are seamless. Additionally, the Ref AVs mount very discreetly on the walls and, in fact, are designed to use the "boundary effect" afforded by such placement. The bass provided by these is astonishing and the WAF is very high.
I would recommend you purchase something like a Velodyne DD-Series subwoofer to handle the bottom-octave chores. They come with massive digital amps and room-correction software that will tailor their response perfectly to your room's anomalies.
All of these can be purchased from Audiogon gently used. I have about $11k worth of speakers for which I paid less than $5k - and every single one of them still had 80% of the mfgr. warranty still in effect...
I am also reading VERY good things about the Tekton Pendragons and M-Lore speakers as well as the Golden Ear Triton 2s and 3s. Look into these as well as the Gallos. And the new Gallo Classico Series is garnering rave reviews as well.
ANY of the aforementioned speakers lines will provide you with *superb*-quality sound for very reasonable money...
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