Hello all first time poster here.
My first foray into higher quality audio was in headphones, I'm pretty cheap but I feel like I spent a lot on my Audio Technica A-500's at ~$100 but I have loved them for the past 4-5years. Will be grabbing a pair of open headphones in the next few months but I want to purchase a 2.0 setup before then.
My budget is around 280-350 for receiver and speakers.
Use will be probably 80% HT and 20% music of ALL sorts.
I'm pretty much set on Pioneer VSX-520-K for my receiver, it is the cheapest of its kind that can decode blu-ray, while my older PS3 only outputs PCM, I may later on get a newer one or something else may happen so I would like to keep that upgrade path open. Yamaha also makes a comparable one to this.
I'm looking at bookshelf speakers with the other 80-150$, probably just 2 bookshelf for now, and if I feel a greater need for a center channel and subwoofer I can worry about that later.
I've been looking into energy cb-5, cerwin vega has a couple models in that range as well which seem to offer a larger frequency response range down in the bass levels. I'm also looking around ebay for some used klipsch RB-15's since in the right auction I can probably nab them for under $150. Jamo S602 is also a consideration. It will be hard for me to listen to any of these beforehand but I am willing to take people's word for it if they have experience with the speakers.
Any other suggestions in this range would be a great help to me.
