Speaker ideas for an A/V and musician's practice setup

[carverm]

Hello and thanks for providing input.
I'll be building a home entertainment setup that I'd also like to double for
fairly loud, clean monitoring of music and vocal/guitar practice also.
I'll be using an Ampeg SS35 studio amp for my guitar, but would like to feed
the vocals and backing tracks through Pro Tools/Cubase on my computer and on through the receiver/amp.
So here's what the speakers have to be able to handle:

-Be fairly loud and clean with music to keep up with the SS35 studio amp in a 18x12 room. 2 channel sound on the mains is ok here.
-Sound good for vocals in comparable volume to the SS35
-Also sound good in 5.1 mode for video/surround.
-Not exceed $1000 by too much if at all.

Off the top of the head, maybe:
Energy Take TWR mains,
C-C100 center
C-R100 rears
ESW-V8 Sub.....

Am still researching and appreciate any input/ideas.

 

[TLS Guy]

Hello and thanks for providing input.
I'll be building a home entertainment setup that I'd also like to double for
fairly loud, clean monitoring of music and vocal/guitar practice also.
I'll be using an Ampeg SS35 studio amp for my guitar, but would like to feed
the vocals and backing tracks through Pro Tools/Cubase on my computer and on through the receiver/amp.
So here's what the speakers have to be able to handle:

-Be fairly loud and clean with music to keep up with the SS35 studio amp in a 18x12 room. 2 channel sound on the mains is ok here.
-Sound good for vocals in comparable volume to the SS35
-Also sound good in 5.1 mode for video/surround.
-Not exceed $1000 by too much if at all.

Off the top of the head, maybe:
Energy Take TWR mains,
C-C100 center
C-R100 rears
ESW-V8 Sub.....

Am still researching and appreciate any input/ideas.

That is pretty much an impossible task. Home audio/theater speakers are very different animals from instrument speakers. Instrument speakers have to be robust, fidelity is not their long suit. To do what you want well would require a custom speaker build, and would be very expensive.

It will be cheaper to go with separate systems.

 

[carverm]

Thanks for the feedback, I understand what you're saying and that possibility, but would like to explore this idea further.
My instrument speaker (guitar) will be the SS35 with the A/V setup having to double as monitors, not instrument speakers.
I would like to be able to feed vocals through the monitors, but could add a dedicated vocal amp/speaker
to keep the monitors purely playback if necessary.
I guess what I'm saying is which speakers would you guys recommend that would angle more towards
the music monitor/playback scale than the purely surround A/V scale yet still sound reasonable for surround A/V?
I know one of the issues would be that the mains would have to be fairly different than the center channel
to get the volume I want, so the surround quality would suffer, but that's acceptable to me.
The Energy towers are supposed to have matched drivers to their center C10 speaker
while being able to reproduce music with fair volume.
Any other ideas along these lines?
Thanks.