Richard Harvey
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- Jun 22, 1999
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I'm trying to help a friend pick new speakers. He gets a discount from our local Tweeter store, so he wants to focus on the products they carry if possible. I'm not up on most of these brands, so I was looking for some feedback.
The brands are Boston Acoustics (which I do own a BA center), Klipsch, Mirage, and Mission. Bose is carried, but for the obvious cost/benefit reasons I've steered him away. He will be running these through a Denon 2802 receiver. He is specifically looking at mains and center for now. He's expecting to fill his sub slot with an SVS in the future (I'm hoping to have mine soon to demo for him). Because of his price range, I've been steering him towards getting a quality set of bookshelf mains with solid stands, paired with a matching center. I told him that even though towers look more "impressive", paired with a solid sub he can get excellent performance out of higher end bookshelves (not the $100 specials at Sams Club).
Klipsch really doesn't offer much in the area of bookshelf speakers (or, I'm unaware of them). Does anyone have experience with Boston, Mirage, or Mission bookshelf and center that would fit his price range ($1000-$1500)? If I can narrow down a list of models, it would make it easier when we go in to demo them.
Thanks in advance,
Rich
The brands are Boston Acoustics (which I do own a BA center), Klipsch, Mirage, and Mission. Bose is carried, but for the obvious cost/benefit reasons I've steered him away. He will be running these through a Denon 2802 receiver. He is specifically looking at mains and center for now. He's expecting to fill his sub slot with an SVS in the future (I'm hoping to have mine soon to demo for him). Because of his price range, I've been steering him towards getting a quality set of bookshelf mains with solid stands, paired with a matching center. I told him that even though towers look more "impressive", paired with a solid sub he can get excellent performance out of higher end bookshelves (not the $100 specials at Sams Club).
Klipsch really doesn't offer much in the area of bookshelf speakers (or, I'm unaware of them). Does anyone have experience with Boston, Mirage, or Mission bookshelf and center that would fit his price range ($1000-$1500)? If I can narrow down a list of models, it would make it easier when we go in to demo them.
Thanks in advance,
Rich