What Klipsch Should I Buy?

[JerryBooher]

I am replacing my JBL D130 and 075 speakers and Technics receiver with Onkyo 605 to control DishDVR and Samsung 61 DLP 1080i. I am keeping Technics turntable and Technics cassette player.

I listened to and liked Klipsch 420w subwoofer and 6.5" bookshelf speakers after rejecting Polk and others. Although I have some hearing loss due to old age, I want a really nice set of speakers for music and TV for under $1500 or so. System will be set up in bookshelf wall. No freestanding speakers. All in bookshelf. My house is one big room with sloped ceiling and the back wall is the kitchen, so I cannot use rear speakers. Right wall is rock. Left is drywall.

I was thinking about a RC-52 center speaker, but I cannot figure out what bookshelf speakers go with it and the subwoofer. I am a novice so any other ideas would be welcome.

Help, please.

 

[mudrummer99]

If you liked the Klipsch, the bookshelves that would match that center well would be the RB-61 or RB-81, depending on how large you want it and the RW-10 or RW-12. I do have the B-3's (the 6.5" bookshelves) and that sub and they are alright, but for $1500 you could do much better. Check out those Klipsch models as well as the Paradigm, they often get compared highly to Klipsch. But don't stop there, find some stores that carry a lot of different brands a listen. You may find you like this over that, or this better than that, that's 80% of the fun of getting new speakers.