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In terms of something that blew me away, is AMCs Dolby theaters. Not sure if you're familiar with them, but to be that's like pinnacle film watching. Obviously their setup is astronomically expensive, which i know that, but the power of those speakers is what I truly want to emulate. They have an insane presence. When it's a concert scene, you are at the concert. When there's a sudden explosion, you're ducking for cover. When the TRex roars, you're glass and seat are shaking. That's what I want out of my HT experience. Were in the process of buying a house so the budget is a bit of a question, because most the cash is currently going to buying the house. For the area where I want to put the speakers I need to put up a 4th wall, and I want to put a pass through in another wall for the LCR for the screen. So essentially the budget can go higher, if I sit and save. If I go in earlier, I might just upgrade over time. Trying to figure out what I like, and what my budget needs to be to get that.

Live in SE Michigan, about 40 min North of Detroit. I'm starting to lean towards maybe getting PA speakers, getting that extra umpfh.

So I have been looking into getting some Klipsch speakers for my upcoming theater build. I went to two separate stores that had demos. The first was ABC warehouse that just had a bunch of speakers in a line. They had a 12 inch Klipsch sub, didn't get the model, and two r820f floorspeakers. Their setup wasn't great, had to do aux in off my phone. I played daft punk's Da Funk, and it sounded pretty bad. The bass was good, but the mids sounded really muddled. So did get to listen to some Klipsch speakers. unfortunately the demo area wasn't instead up very well. It makes me wonder if the receiver or the settings on it were screwed up, possibly even the speaker is blown. it just sounded kind of unnatural. Which really surprised me because I expected it to at least sound good but maybe not be good in the way that I wanted it to be. At the best buy there was a demo setup with some tablet that could pull up trailers that Klipsch put on there. The trailers sounded pretty bad, especially in the highs again. They almost sounded like they were clipping. I just am really surprised by how poor the quality was. Once again it was r280fs and a 12inch, with some bookshelfs. The song demos that were preloaded sounded bad in the same way. Just didn't have the clarity i would have expected. I compared to a Sony unit near by and while it didn't have the presence that the Klipsch had, it did have much more clarity. So was I maybe just having bad luck? Two busted demo units? I see lots of positive reviews and such, and I was really excited, but disappointed what the demos had to offer. As far as I know there's no where else to demo the speakers, or the premiere line. I was really hoping I would immediately fall in love. Hoping someone can shed some light on my experience, maybe let me know that it is possible that i just had bad luck twice.