Speaker Reccommendation for Home Theater

Score thanks! At this moment I am drinking a less than satisfying Bordeaux. I really enjoy wine, but spend too much time on this stupid hobby to learn any more!

Nothing like a great bottle of wine and listening to great music on your system...

Anyway try these:

2001 Chateau St. Jean Cab. Sauv. Sonoma County $19.00
2002 Mondavi Cab. Sauv. Napa Valley $19.00
2001 Columbia Crest Walter Clore Red Wine Columbia Valley
Private Reserve $17.00

With a name like Cabernet5 do you have some great under $25 recommendations? I really like Claret's, Meritage, and Pinot Noirs, but open to almost any red.

Thanks.

Quite a segway from audio, huh?

I'm using a DIY sealed sub based on a dayton audio titanic 8" driver and rythmik audio plate amp. Works great with the M-1's.

Great! Any thoughts on B&W's MT 30? My thinking: this setup comes with a sub. However I already have a sub. Is it ok to mix my sub with the M-1's? My current subwoofer is a Paradigm.

Linn Audio has HT system that takes up very little space. I think the front speakers are mountable on the wall. Panel design. Very small and compact subwoofer. Just saw and listened to it, at what I think was its debut, at a recent annual Home Theater Show. This was at Definite Audio in Bellvue, Washington last month. Not a super equake maker but very decent and more affordable. New engineering on the drivers. Very clear.

Rmacdon

Let me chime in a recommend the B&W M-1's. I have a pair wall mounted in my office system. I'm constantly amazed at how much sound comes out of such a small speaker. The B&W LM1's are also a good speaker and they can be wall and ceiling mounted. I compared the two and the M-1's have a little more detail in the treble and the LM1's have just a tad more midrange warmth( splitting hairs). Of course all the small speakers recommend here will need to be paired with a subwoofer.

The Era Design 4's look cool, but I've never heard them. How about the Gallo Due'? I auditioned a pair and was really impressed with them, but they were out of my price range.

The Gallos do sound very nice. I heard them with a pair of subs, and they were great for HT, and not too bad for audio.

era Design 4s are well finished, compact, and come with hardware for wall mounting. I have the 4s in the rear, and 5s up front in my HT. They have no trouble filling my 16 x 22 room, and have a higher quality of sound then some of the alternatives I was considering (B&W, Paradigm, etc.). The Design 4s are 599 pr, the LCR 4 is 499 ea.

Check out the Morel speakers system.

Wow. Those Gallo speakers are reall slick. They would definitely match me decor. Any idea on how they sound?

B&W makes a decent sounding wall-mounted unit, and Dynaudio has an in-wall version of its Audience 42 speaker, though a little more expensive. Martin Logan also has a wall-mounted speaker that's not an electrostat which sounds pretty good, but it eats up power and wasn't as dynamic as the B&Ws when I heard them side by side. If you want the suspended type of speakers, I wonder if Gallo's little spherical speakers might work in that application?

Anything smaller...

Magnepan MC1 or MMG-W. Both can be wall mounted. I'm
using a combination of both with a Rel Strata III subwoofer
in a 5.1 configuration and it sounds excellent.

Gallo Acuoustics has several (www.roundsound.com), Magnepan's MMG-W system (www.magnepan.com), RBH makes some great (well for what they are), in wall/cieling speakers (www.rbhsound.com), and B & W used to, not sure if they still do, make some great sounding in wall's as well.

NHT + Omni-Mount brackets