Since high school I've had it in my head that Klipsch was the pinnacle of all things audio. I now work in retail electronics at a big box store, and get a pretty hefty discount on some of the audio products we carry. Just before I took the plunge on a complete 5.1 setup of speakers for under 800, I got a demo of the B&W's CM-9 S2 and it rocked my world. Since then I've been looking at other possibilities and am considering a set of CM-10 S2's (with a center and some small M-1's for surround during movies, all running through a Marantz SR7009.
Considering that CERTAIN brands I could hypothetically get for just over half of their retail price... am I a fool for leaning towards those speakers? Should I go on a listening odyssey and see what else is out there? Or, being new to the HiFi world, should those speakers do just fine to my relatively virgin ears? Do I need to take more stock in surrounds? Is the jump to separates really that noticeable? Should I have read through previous posts that probably address many of these questions???...
I'm excited about what I heard from those, and my wife is already on board (that took some work), but I'd hate to regret spending a hefty $3500 if something else in that range would sound better for me.
Thanks in advance!
Since high school I've had it in my head that Klipsch was the pinnacle of all things audio. I now work in retail electronics at a big box store, and get a pretty hefty discount on some of the audio products we carry. Just before I took the plunge on a complete 5.1 setup of speakers for under 800, I got a demo of the B&W's CM-9 S2 and it rocked my world. Since then I've been looking at other possibilities and am considering a set of CM-10 S2's (with a center and some small M-1's for surround during movies, all running through a Marantz SR7009.
Considering that CERTAIN brands I could hypothetically get for just over half of their retail price... am I a fool for leaning towards those speakers? Should I go on a listening odyssey and see what else is out there? Or, being new to the HiFi world, should those speakers do just fine to my relatively virgin ears? Do I need to take more stock in surrounds? Is the jump to separates really that noticeable? Should I have read through previous posts that probably address many of these questions???...
I'm excited about what I heard from those, and my wife is already on board (that took some work), but I'd hate to regret spending a hefty $3500 if something else in that range would sound better for me.
Thanks in advance!