newbie. 10k budget for full system. advice!?

[PENG]

If you want to stick with the known quantity kind of gear you could spend around 2K on a Denon AVR-4311 or X4000 plus a Emotiva XPA-3 or an Outlaw amp for a little more. Spend the remaining 7.5 to 8K on speakers and subs. Or you could save the 0.7 to 1.5K for a 2 or 3 channel if you are willing to give the 4311 a chance to see if it can handle the speakers all by itself. If it can, then you are better off spending the extra money to get a better sub, or two subs.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

It always the guys with tonnes of dough who squeeze nickels out of their butt

You calling me a tightwad?

Opps, there's another nickel.

I am actually doing everyone a favor by buying all these expensive gears and then telling everyone that it really ain't all that.

Just wait for the Denon X4000 to sell for about $600 new a year later. Keep the speaker size small, channel levels above + 0.0, get some subs, set your XO to 80Hz, and you really don't need any amps either. Save some bucks. Enjoy, my friends.

 

[shadyJ]

Klipsch has 97db Efficiency and 8ohm nominal impedance ... Do you really think OP want to blow up his speakers and eardrums or that 125Wpc 20-20 at 0.08% Thd is not sufficient?
Much better to split this amount (cost of ati amp) between room treatments and remote control system

An interesting post on how Klipsch pads their sensitivity rating.

 

[PENG]

An interesting post on how Klipsch pads their sensitivity rating.

So whatever they say, just subtract 4 dB, no big deal as long as they tell people. It is also hard to say if everyone else are not doing their own padding. Many do state "@1M"but not always specify the measurements are made in an anechoic chamber.

 

[shadyJ]

The Audio Engineering Society standard is half-space. If a speaker company does not specify anechoic, I would just assume they are using half-space.