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| I am thinking of upgrading my 3 yr old home theater setup (speakers and receivers) and have established a $1,750 Cdn or nearly $1,300 US budget. Now my first question is will this $1,300 US or $1,750 Cdn be money well spend? Will I hear a significant improvement over what I currently have (see below)? I am not against putting all the budget into just speakers or just the receiver is the other components are still any good. I just want to make sure it will be money well spent. The setup will be used to listen to music and to watch dvd movies, the split is probably 40% music and 60% movies. Current Setup: Receiver - Kenwood VR-309 Effective power at 100W per channel, at 8 ohms, from 40Hz to 20kHz with no more than 0.7% THD Frequency Response is 10Hz ~ 85kHz, +0 dB, -3.0 dB Signal to Noise ratio is 93 dB Main Speakers - Kenwood JL-508 3 way 3 speaker system 12" cone woofer 4" cone midrange 0.5" titanium dome tweeter Sensitivity is 92 dB/W at 1 m Frequency response is 45Hz to 20kHz Normal impedance is 8 omhs Surround/Centre Speakers - Kenwood CDS-158 Centre two 4" cone Sensitivity is 89 dB/W at 1 m Frequency response is 70Hz to 20kHz Normal impedance is 8 omhs Surround one 4" cone Sensitivity is 88 dB/W at 1 m Frequency response is 80Hz to 20kHz Normal impedance is 8 omhs Subwoofer - Kenwood SW-1050W 150W RMS into 4 ohms from 20Hz to 200Hz with no more than 0.09% THD 12" polypropylene cone Normal impedance is 4 omhs |
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| And in case it makes any difference, my "theater" is about 10' deep and 12' wide. |
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Derek | Have a look at Paradigm, Athena, NHT or Energy. I will assume your receiver has a line-level subwoofer output. Use an active sub - perhaps a HSU VTF-2... Hope this helps. |
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qdog | also look at RBH compact series, comparable to Energy take 5.1...here are some links... http://www.audiorevolution.com/equip/rbhcompacttheater/ http://www.onhometheater.com/product/20020901.htm and for a receiver look at Integra 6.3...excellent value |
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| Thanks for the info... I will look into each of them. I have read a lot about the Athena speakers, specifically their Point 5 home theater package and so far, all I have read are positive. Are there ANY negatives? Derek, am I hearing you correctly that you think I should just upgrade my speakers? Thanks again, MA |
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Derek | Yes, your receiver should be good enough. It's limited bass response will be negated by the active subwoofer. Bytheway, I have the Point 5s and have gone through two sets of Take-5s, one coupled with the HSU sub. Happy Upgrade! |