Good price for Energy Ref series?

[vhl71]

Got a quote from my local shop here for the following:

Energy RC30s for L/R
RC-Rs for back
RC-LCR for centre
S10.3 for sub

The price quoted was CAD2850 tax incl. Compared to future shop, this is pretty good ..

Good? Bad? OK?

Cheers

 

[billy p]

The other day, future shop offered 25% off, all Energy speakers! It seems that quote is comparable. I would use the 25% and see if they can do just a little bit better JMO.

 

[edmcanuck]

I'd call it a good, but average, price. That's what any Energy shop would sell that package to you for.

 

[PENG]

May be it's just me, I just don't feel like spending too much money on the surround speakers. I have Veritas up front and the rest Connoisseur and Polks; and I do not find that I am lacking anything. The same go for amplifiers, I have my amp powering the fronts and my 3805 handles the other channels just fine. I do own quite a few SACD and DVDAs for music listening, and still, there aren't that much coming out of the surround channels to justify upgrading the surround channels. You can save some money by going for Energy's (actually API) lower priced products such as the Athena for surrounds. Obviously before you do that you should listen to them first and see if you are bothered by not having surround speakers that are of the same (Athena is made by API as well) tonal characterstics as the fronts and the center speakers.

 

[dponeill]

Got a quote from my local shop here for the following:

Energy RC30s for L/R
RC-Rs for back
RC-LCR for centre
S10.3 for sub

The price quoted was CAD2850 tax incl. Compared to future shop, this is pretty good ..

Good? Bad? OK?

Cheers

For what it's worth, I got the same setup, less the sub, on Audiogon for $1270 USD shipped.

I don't subscribe to the "surrounds don't matter" theory. I would be willing to bet that most, if not all, of the people who will tell you that have never owned a matched set of speakers and therefore don't know what they are missing.

 

[PENG]

For what it's worth, I got the same setup, less the sub, on Audiogon for $1270 USD shipped.

I don't subscribe to the "surrounds don't matter" theory. I would be willing to bet that most, if not all, of the people who will tell you that have never owned a matched set of speakers and therefore don't know what they are missing.

I do think they matter, but I just wouldn't spend too much money to make sure they are perfectly match. I wouldn't match Energy with Klipsh neither even though they are now owned by the same people. That being said, no doubt a match set is ideal, anything else is a compromise, and some people can live with compromise, some can't.

 

[Sheep]

For what it's worth, I got the same setup, less the sub, on Audiogon for $1270 USD shipped.

I don't subscribe to the "surrounds don't matter" theory. I would be willing to bet that most, if not all, of the people who will tell you that have never owned a matched set of speakers and therefore don't know what they are missing.

The surrounds only need ot match them selves. You're not going to be able to point of the differences between energy lines when you compare front to rear sound fields. Unless of course you don't do the test blind.. then you can point out everything.

That seems decent for those speakers, I think you could get away with the c series in the back. They sound really good.

SheepStar

 

[crimsona]

For what it's worth, I got the same setup, less the sub, on Audiogon for $1270 USD shipped.

I don't subscribe to the "surrounds don't matter" theory. I would be willing to bet that most, if not all, of the people who will tell you that have never owned a matched set of speakers and therefore don't know what they are missing.

Shipping to Canada - hundreds
Tax/duties (if applicable) - hundreds
Canada Customs - worthless

For a Canadian price, that's not bad locally, as sales tax is likely around 13-14% unless he's in Alberta.

 

[dponeill]

The surrounds only need ot match them selves. You're not going to be able to point of the differences between energy lines when you compare front to rear sound fields. Unless of course you don't do the test blind.. then you can point out everything.

That seems decent for those speakers, I think you could get away with the c series in the back. They sound really good.

SheepStar

It willl most certainly affect the positioning of sounds BETWEEN the front and the back. We aren't talking about power cords or interconnects here. Unless you subscribe to the idea that all speakers sound alike.