AaronR

It's not necessarily the saving portion, its the talking my newlywed wife into letting me spend the extra money. I did go ahead and purchase the quintets only because I have a silver membership and have 60 days to return them. If i can not convince her to let me spend more in the next 60 days I guess it is what it is, but I am definitely looking for a better option in all my spare time/breaks from working on the basement. My room is not huge my any means, only 2016 cubic feet, but I want the best sound that I will be happy with (for a while at least, I know the 'upgrade bug' hits us all at some point or another.) I have found that I need front ported speakers for the fronts and bookshelf speakers would work much better for my setup, so that limits me for the low budget. And to boot they really can not be more than 13 inches deep to work with the space. Does anyone have speaker suguestions for my front sound stage?

Just thumbing through the best buy ad and noticed quintet system for 275... Is the quintet system even worth a look? Never would have considered going that route but for 275 seams hard to pass up...

Newegg has F-20's on sale for a pretty good price they are front ported (I think???) are they any good compared to reference series speakers. I have only had listening experience with the reference line.

So anyone interested in buying a single rb61?.... Two pairs equals an extra speaker for this guy

Yeah the rf-62 is like 14 and a half inches deep... My space from the face of the cabinet to the wall is 12 inches... And I would still like to an offset from the cab face to the screen. I could set the speaker to the back of the Sheetrock on the adjoining wall so add 4 inches

Since I am trying to get away as cheap as possible and also have some spacial issues, would 3 rf-42's be even worth my time effort and hard earned cash? I love the sound of klipsch but has anyone seen the jamo d500 series? Identical lcr that are only 5.1 inches deep

Who then would be the best dealer to contact on speaker prices? Also I read an article about horizontal center channels saything that they are not the best way to get good sound. Anyone stand their klipsch centers on end? what about running 3 identical centers for my LCR?

Yeah my sister is actually a directbuy member and Its cheap just dont know if its cheap enough to keep me out of the dog house.

I was going to put the surrounds just past the notch in the wall they would then be place just beside the second row of seating approx 4 feet behind the front couch. I had not though of running surrounds in series to give both rows of seating optimal sound.

Hello, It has been a while since my last post. (Financial strains of getting married put a halt to my home theater build) I am back to work on my room now. it is 13'6" wide by roughly 12' to my front wall on the first level and then it steps up on the 12" riser to a 10'6" x 10'6" area (there is a 3' offset in the wall on the right side of the seating positions. I am building a 12" set of cabinets around the roughly 106" at seymour screen, wanting a little bit of reveal from the face of the cabinets back to the screen plane. The cabinet door on the right side of the screen is actually a hidden door so I need to place the speakers behind the screen. So that being said I recently ordered the rw-12d and am trying to piece together the rest of my sound system. Originally i had planned to use in walls but upon more research I think I can get much more 'bang for my buck' out of box speakers. Floor standers are probably a little deep for my cabinet offset and I am reluctant to bring the cabinets out any further because it shortens the distance from the seating position to the screen and also makes the entry door to my theater smaller. All of that being said I am looking for the best system for the money. I do love the sound of Klipsch speakers and want to stay with them. My new wife is worried about me spending way to much money so I am trying to stay in a 'descent' budget. Possibly up the the RB-61II home theater system that Klipsch lists on their website. (RB-61II, RC-52II, RS-42II) but my wife would be very happy spending much less, would like to start my new marriage out of the right foot! Would Quintets get lost in such a big room? If I went to the low end of the reference series and put the RB-41II RC-42II and RS-41II's am I going to even have a descent sound system or should at that point am I not gaining anything over a packaged quintet system? Or step up to 51's or 61's? What receiver can I get away with to power any of these options. So many questions!! I want to make my decision so that I can accommodate for the speaker choice in the build. I over research everything I buy and with such a large purchase for the room I've been wanting to build for so many years I really want to make the right choice. PLEASE HELP! Only equipment I have and are using for the room are Epson 8100, and the Klipsch RW-12d. And I'm Pretty sold on the Seymour Cinmea XD screen (probably ordering in the next few days)

Wow thank you all for your responses. I want to keep the front of the theater with a clean look, and also keep expensive speakers out of reach of my neices and nefews. I think I would cry if a child knocked over a klipsch reference tower! I am still leaning toward in wall speakers behind my screen but I am going to chalk out a layout that includes building out the front wall with a 'pocket' behind the screen large enough to accomodate full size towers.

Yeah, unfortunately that is what I thought the response may be. I am not familiar with the Danley clones for a riser, could you explain a little bit about those, or refer me to a place I can research them? Anyone have any experience with the in walls I was speaking of? Complete waste of time or is there anyone out there happy with the in wall setup?

Sorry, the in wall surround I was refering to was the R-5650-S II