you didn't say what your budget is - I'm assuming you ewant to stay in the ~$100 range. As far as speakers go - here's a couple of thoughts:
1) you'd be surprised (actually stunned) by what you can get by retrofitting new drivers and a simple 1st order crossover inside existing cabinets. If you can find some old speakers locally, buy the drivers from Parts Express, or ebay. Buy the Caps, Inductors, and misc hardware like binding posts for your xover from Parts express. This can be done for $100 - $300 depending on how you go about it. The challenge here is you may need to make a new baffle board. Not expensive, but requires cutting holes and drilling.
2) Consider mini-monitors as a speaker option. You can probably find some incredible deals for <$100 for a pair. Example - I have some Parasound CRS220 monitors I bought in the 80's for $50 from a liquidator. I've seen them selling for $20 on ebay used, but serviceable. There may be other that some folks here can recommend that are more available than the parasounds. A cheap subwoofer combined with mini-monitors can give you very satisfying results
I think your location actually is problematic - unless there are a lot of Agon members near you. I'm also in Maryland and if you were in Va, I could gift some surplus gear I have (eg a Denon CD player). It's probably not worth the shipping charges to you, especially since it has a minor issue with not reading some discs.
1) you'd be surprised (actually stunned) by what you can get by retrofitting new drivers and a simple 1st order crossover inside existing cabinets. If you can find some old speakers locally, buy the drivers from Parts Express, or ebay. Buy the Caps, Inductors, and misc hardware like binding posts for your xover from Parts express. This can be done for $100 - $300 depending on how you go about it. The challenge here is you may need to make a new baffle board. Not expensive, but requires cutting holes and drilling.
2) Consider mini-monitors as a speaker option. You can probably find some incredible deals for <$100 for a pair. Example - I have some Parasound CRS220 monitors I bought in the 80's for $50 from a liquidator. I've seen them selling for $20 on ebay used, but serviceable. There may be other that some folks here can recommend that are more available than the parasounds. A cheap subwoofer combined with mini-monitors can give you very satisfying results
I think your location actually is problematic - unless there are a lot of Agon members near you. I'm also in Maryland and if you were in Va, I could gift some surplus gear I have (eg a Denon CD player). It's probably not worth the shipping charges to you, especially since it has a minor issue with not reading some discs.