Well decided to upgrade my bose cause I get made fun of too much by everybody here.
So I know a decent amount about receiver amps and processors but almost nothing about speakers!
Heres my questions.. there’s going be a lot so bare with me lol
1) what’s are ohms ratings, like 4-6-8?
2) what are good company’s say for quality or best bang for a buck
3) what’s a good budget considering I have a denon avr3808ci and a regza hl167 audios more a concern then video just forgot a hole bunch of questions soo ill keep on adding but feel free to rant or rave about products or situations.. My rooms about 15x15 with 9 foot ceilings 50-50 music/movies
rnatalli summed up pretty well about the ohms so I'm not going there. Usually one picks the speakers 1st, then the receiver but since you already have a receiver, you'll have to look at speakers between 6 and 8 ohms.
What is your budget? How much were you planning to spend? Are you planning to use towers for the mains and go bookshelves for the surrounds or are you going with bookshelves all around.
I'm a PSB fanboy and love their Image line of speakers. They make 3 tower and 2 bookshelf models. All of them are fantastic speakers with no weak model in terms of performance. They all run 6ohms nominal and have a high sensitivity so it does't take much to make them sing loud and clear.
What I would do is to take a pad of paper with you, write down the make and model of each speaker you audition and what you liked and disliked about the speakers you were auditioning. Was the bass tight and deep or was it boomy and loose sounding? Were the mids life like or were they hollow or just too pronounced? Was the treble irritating and harsh or were they dark and not revealing or were they smooth that made you want to listen for more? How was the imaging?
Bring music with you that you are very familiar with and know quite well. To make it easier to audition HT speaker systems, listen to the main speakers in 2 channel mode with music. Music is much harder to reproduce acurately then a movie soundtrack so if the speakers do well with music, then they will do well with HT. Speakers that do HT well may not do well with music.
When auditioning the center channel of the same brand and series as the main speakers, pick a difficult source like an announcer that mumbles alot. If you can make out what the mumbling announcer has to say, then you have a good center channel.I would go to speciality stores first and start auditioning speakers first instead of going to the internet first. Once your likes are determined, you can mention them here and fellow members can make internet brand recommnedations based on your likes/dislikes.
The specality stores are better setup acousticaly then the big box stores which will make auditioning a little easier. It will give you an idea of what you like in a speaker.
Keep track of what amp or receiver is powering the speakers you're auditioning.Try to get a receiver/amp that closest resembles what you have or want to get.It just reduces another variable when audtioning speakers.One thing to keep note off.
When auditioning speakers, make sure the volume levels are matched between the diiferent speaker pairs because the louderspeaker pair will always sound better. Listen to levels that you think you would listen to most of the time because thats how you are going to be using them most of the time.
Good ;uck and let us know how you're making out.
