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Klipsch Home Theater Setup

I'm trying to spend around $1K on speakers that sound great for stereo audio as well as for home theater. Having listened to some speakers at my local Best Buy and looking at prices, one thought I had was to get a pair of Klipsch Reference 600M to serve as a front stereo pair, and then getting the Klipsch Reference Theater Pack ($500 on Amazon) to provide the center channel, small sub, and satellites. Any thoughts on how these might pair? By adjusting levels for home theater use, could I use this combination to put together a credible 5.1.2 system, and could the sub that comes work the reference theater pack give me good (enough) low end for listening to jazz/classic rock with the 600M pair?
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^^^^^^^^^THIS!!!!!^^^^^^^^

Three things you will never find:
Five $200 speakers that sound as good as two $500 speakers.
Five $200 amps that sound as good as one $1k stereo integrated amp.
Five great big long $200 interconnects that sound as good as one meter of $1k interconnect.

Yes stopping at 3 is totally arbitrary. You get the idea. Sure hope so anyway.

The one exception is subs. Four or five $200 subs will provide much better bass than just one for $1k. But the Home Theater guys will never tell you about that. Because HT is a wasteland of awful sound. Don't go there. Just don't.
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