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For now, my budget doesn't allow me going beyond 500/- in which I can afford either Quintet or HD500. The room size is very small - 10X10. Further I travel alot and Smaller size will be a plus for me. In April I will be using these speakers in India where the walls are of brick/mortar. I am not sure, but I have heard that acoustic property of concrete walls is not very good and big speakers tend to rattle the room. Am not sure. By now you might have guessed that I am newbee in this area and this is my first investment in any speaker outside the TV.

Experts any suggestions between the two which one is better!!

I just checked quintet III at a friend's place. They sounds much better than my HD500. Smaller as well. I am contemplating to change my HD500 with quintet. But I have read on this forum that HD500 is supposed to be on the lines of $20,000 per pair Palladium P-39F speakers - toned down version but still this should be much better then quintet. Now I'm curious to know how HD systems are in comparison to the Quintet series. Would it be advisable to return HD500 and get quintet III instead.

Oblio Thanks for taking up my queries. As I mentioned, I am novice at this and this is my first home theater set up. Did you check your speaker phasing ? I see a switch at the back of Klipsch Sub to select between 0 or 180 setting. Are you referring to this by speaker phasing - if not How do I check for this? 0 dB vs -20 dB on two different receivers is pretty much meaningless, as is comparing speakers on different AVRs ok - then how do you compare two different AVRs and two different speakers set. I am planning to take speakers to test on my cousin's setup - just switch the speakers from Bose to Klipsch and keep everything same. I hope that will be apple to apples test. Did you do the sub-crawl & /or experiment with phasing on your subs to optimize the results, crossover frequencies ? I let the Onkyo Audyssey automatic set up to do the optimization. My online research told me that this is the best way to set up the system, or go for professional installation. Little write up on that is pasted below. Audyssey MultEQ MultEQ detects speakers, and then sets levels, delays and crossovers, as well as measuring room acoustics. Using the receiver interface, it takes up to 6 measurements around the listening area and uses high-resolution equalization filters for satellites and subwoofers. MultEQ covers both frequency response and time domain (where most of the problems lie) across the entire listening area. What is the price comparison ? Klipsch was 600/- + Onkyo was 600/- (500 in deal) Boss equivalent is 500 ( the model I compared too is a 7 year old same model) Are you affiliated with Bose in any way ? No. I work for Intel - more in making PC business . Just want to get a good home theater in 1000/- price point.

Experts..I am a novice, this is my first home theater system and I need your advice. I bought an Onkyo 707 and Klipsch 500 HD system day before Christmas. I did this after doing lot of online research and reading many reviews. I have connected TV, DVD player etc to onkyo using RCA cable(old player/TV - no HDMI). Connected from DVD player to Onkyo using digital cable. All Speakers and sub are hooked to onkyo. I positioned the speakers as desired in the small apartment room and let Onkyo Audyssey do the automatic equalization and adjustments. I played transformers, terminator salvation, Pearl harbor and Polar express to check the performance. I took the same DVDs to my cousin's place and played this on his old Yamaha HTR xx(7 year old low cost receiver) + Bose acoustimass 5.1 system. Bose beat the klipsch in all measures of performance. I don't think receiver could be a problem. Observation 1. Voice clarity was much better in bose+yamaha Vs Klipsch+Onkyo 2. Each sound effect - individual sounds were easily noticeable on Bose. 3. Needed to crank up the volume to 0dB in Klipsch + onkyo compared to -20dB in Yamaha + Bose to get comparable loudness but then Klipsch started loosing the clarity. I am not sure if something could be wrong in the set up as these two systems were tested in different room environment. I am planning to take Klipsch to my cousin's place and test in his house itself for an apples to apples comparison. Will report back on this. Based on what I have experienced so far, I am getting more inclined to exchange my klipsch with Bose. Any expert's advise for me??