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May 15, 2019 - 6:33pm
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New speakers under $500 + old receiver
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Because of the low power of your receiver, the thing you need to concentrate on is the sensitivity rating of the speakers you buy. If the rating is too low, the speakers will need more power than you have for decent performance and the result will be poor sound.
Get some that are rated 90 db/watt or higher. The Dali Zensor are great speakers, but their low sensitivity of 86 db/watt rules them out in your case. The Elac UB5 are even worse, at 85 db/watt! The Klipsch speakers are more sensitive, but IMO their sound quality is poor.
The Monitor Audio Bronze 2 would be perfect for you; they sound really great and are rated at 90 db/watt. They are available from Audio Advisor and other online retailers for $499 or less per pair.
Note that the sensitivity ratings are logorithmic, so each 3db lower represents a doubling of power required. This means that the Dali Zensor, for example, would need around 70-80 watts per channel.
By the way are you sure your speakers died, or did your receiver die? Try connecting some other speakers to your receiver and make sure it works.
Thanks, Commsysman, that's just the kind of info I was hoping for, I really appreciate it.
I'm 100% sure the speakers are toast. We had been living in a house with a built in whole house speaker system. Our speakers were in the garage, and drown in a plumbing leak that broken through the ceiling and poured right down onto them. It was a sad day.
Oh...lol...I guess that sort of removed all doubt.
Good listening.