Speaker recommendation for Home Theater

Wanderingmoo, we can surely guide you, we are trained theater designers, and without a doubt the Kef line is one of the best you can use for home theater.

The Kef line uses a shallow horn loaded dual concentric driver, this type of design is wonderful for theater as it produces a huge sound stage without localization, also the KEF’s are very clean and detailed and they produce a clarity which makes things like breaking glass and other high frequency sounds very realistic.

You have the new KEF R series which offer a lot of the more expensive KEF Reference’s performance for  roughly 1/3 the price which makes the new R series a terrific deal.

We have a full Kef Reference theater setup and it is fantastic, we also did a smaller setup for Rev Run’s Rennovations DIY show.

Mr. Simons, aka, Rev Run from Run DMC, stated that the theater we created for him was his favorite room in his $9 million dollar home!

We would also encourage you to upgrade from a receiver to separates if possible

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Please feel free to reach out to us and we can see if we can assist you we are dealers for: Kef, Dali, Paradigm, Quad, NAD, Audio Control, Anthem, Sony, JVC, Epson, Screen Innovations, plus many others.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

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Sorry Soix we beg to differ. We have a full home theater room with some state of the art components and when you have a real home theater setup the experience is transcendent. 

We started with much less expensive gear and over time upgraded each level of the system and as the system's components got better so was the realisim and enjoyment of watching a movie.

You also fail to comprehend that most of the excitment of theater is sound which is ususally very well scored. Music is an integral part of the soundtrack for most movies and creates the excitment much more then the visuals. 

Just turn off the sound and watch the drama go away.

For example we started with PSB Syncrony loudspeakers which were very good $5k speakers when we repalced them with Kef Ref 3 the sound was far more realistic and dramatic, the difference between the two loudspeakers was self evident. 

That is also not to say that a good 5.1 or 7.1 or 11,2 system can't do a good job reproducing music as well. 

Our reference home theater uses a $9k Audio Conrol Maestro M9 which sounds glorious and did sound way better then the $3k Anthem AVM 60 which sounded better than a $4k Marantz. 

Don't knock the experience of really good theater until you've heard one.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

Soix you totally missed  our points in your rant about not understanding the OP, we do nor did we denegrate your comments, the difference is we are disagreeing with your point about that paying more is not really going to get you more. 

The point we made about PSB to KEF Reference was that it was clealy audiible that moving from a great $5k speaker system to a $14k one was very audibile even in the context of a lowly " Home Theater system."

If you had professional experience in a store with a great professionally designed ATC theater then you should no the joys of listening to and experience a Movie on such a system. 

As per selling gear and recommending same, we sell many of the best brands in audio , we tend to do theaters with KEF or Tannoy because dual concentric drivers work wonders in imperfect rooms and  both Tannoy and KEF  employ drivers with very good high frequency extension and both have great dynamics. 

Over the years we have done theaters wtih most of the major loudspeakers lines out there. 

The best theaters we have ever heard have been from .  Procella and PHC.

Soix you also fail to understand that just because we have a store we also have to spend money on tons of other stuff we all do, life is about making choices. one choice is to purchase the stuff you really want and build over time, the other is to make major cuts in budgets and buy stuff which you feel comes closer to the better gear but is less expensive.

Before I built Audio Doctor, I worked at two major NYC retailors and had to make choices on what to buy as well, if you saw my first true high end rig it was hopelessly mismatched. 

Started with a pair of Quad ELS 63 on an Aiwa mini system, then came a Halfler Power amp, and a Sumo preamp, before moving into even better gear MFA power amps and an Electro preamp it took me five years to build that system, in my mind there never was a choice to compromise it was buy the best single parts over time until the system was done. 

The best path for the OP is to start to demo different levels of speakers and then he can make up his own mind on the value proposition of moving into better products or not.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

The Dynaudio Contours are really good, we just heard them at the NY audio show, and we were impressed.

Your idea on the Musical Fidelity M6 is a good one they are very powerful and clean, we would recommend a high quality surround sound receiver to power the center and any surrounds. 

The Anthem MRX 720 is fantastic for $2,500.00  if you are looking for a great sounding powerful receiver look for a used Cambridge CX 200.

Or move up to one of the higher end 2 channel integrated amplifiers like the Anthem STR which has a great built in dac, offers room correction and 250 watts on tap.

Another great integrated is the Coda CS IB a 400 $6k watt powerhouse no dac, with 5 watts pure class A amazing build and sound quality for a purist 2 channel integrated. 

If you are going back to 2 channel than you want to put the money into a really good 2 channel integrated and use a good quality surround sound receiver to power the rest.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

Also if you like the sound of the Dynaudio's see if it  there is a Legacy dealer anywhere near you the Signature is a worthy competitor to the Dynaudio similar tonaltity big and warm, big soundstage very deep bass and it is only $7k a pair you might really like them.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ