Dan,
You may have answered your own qustion. If you prefer the A52 after carefully auditioning both, go for the A52. Pocket the money saved and buy music, movies and/or ???.
The Contours are a more detailed speaker (D260 vs D28-2 tweeter) which you may or not prefer. The MKII also has quite a bit of a low end advantage over the A52 but if using a sub, that shouldn't be much of an issue.
One last thing since you mentioned HT. The Audience center costs quite a bit less than the Contour which may be of consideration. Dynaudio indicated to me the the new C center would run approx. $2.0-$2.5K (Yikes!). The other option would be to find the old model Contour in the used market.
Regards,
Jet
You may have answered your own qustion. If you prefer the A52 after carefully auditioning both, go for the A52. Pocket the money saved and buy music, movies and/or ???.
The Contours are a more detailed speaker (D260 vs D28-2 tweeter) which you may or not prefer. The MKII also has quite a bit of a low end advantage over the A52 but if using a sub, that shouldn't be much of an issue.
One last thing since you mentioned HT. The Audience center costs quite a bit less than the Contour which may be of consideration. Dynaudio indicated to me the the new C center would run approx. $2.0-$2.5K (Yikes!). The other option would be to find the old model Contour in the used market.
Regards,
Jet