Thinking about buying new speakers....the Elac Uni Fi5 towers or the Klipsch hersery lll

Yes these two are very different! Price wise on the Elac at 1,000.00
a pair. Klipsch hersery big sound at a low volume level. 

Wayne

ELAC=imaging/soundstage champ
Klipsch=dynamics champ
Apples or oranges
What's your preference?

Klispch is more versatile with amplifier choices. 

I own some Heresy 3s, but my recommendation would be to get Spatial Audio M4 TurboS' they're better all-around speakers for the same price. Unlike the H3s, they'll sound good with your current amp.

I recently went from a pair of Revel M106 with sub to a pair or Heresy III...although the 106 were a great speaker, they can not deliver dynamics like the Heresy can.  In some rooms the Heresy can have ample low end without the need for a sub, however I think they really need to be partnered with a good sub.

The Revel and Heresy are also polar opposites too, but I don't regret it for a minute.  $2000 is a tough price point, many speakers between $1500 and $2k are decent but are almost all certainly made in China.   Even the Revel,  a "boutique" brand was made in Indonesia and was $2k new.

One thing about Klipsch Heritage , you can ALWAYS get parts for them.  And they stand behind their warranty.  

If you are looking for a small speaker that fills the room with big lifelike dynamics and still sounds great at low volumes the Heresy is hard to beat.   Percussion and bass guitar sound much better to me through them compared to my past speakers with 6 and 7 inch bass drivers.  The thwack of a bass string or the 'kick' of a kick drum are much more convincing.  

They are also at the opposite extremes of sensitivity,  those elacs would need more than your amp can deliver to play as loud as the Klipsch can with 10 watts. I'm using a 40 w tube amp and that's way more power than I need with them.

A lot of people trash the Heresy , but the III are really good and I think they are a lot of speaker for the money.  When I auditioned mine I walked in the room they were playing in already, they threw a huge soundstage and it was hard to hear where the sound was coming from and I said wow, what ever those are sound great.  As I got closer I realized it was the tiny little Heresy that was throwing that huge wall of sound.   Listened some more with my amps, as I was lucky that they had the same gear and ordered a pair.  

I have been living / selling / modifying Klipsch Heritage ( the Heresy is the smallest of the 5 models designed solely by PWK ) for 50 years, and with every other speakers I have owned, or have heard, these others always sounded boring, compressed and lifeless. Fortunately for me, my 1st introduction to Klipsch were the Khorns being driven by Mcintosh tube amps ( 1965, I was 11 ). By 13, I purchased a pair of Cornwalls, and with my dad’s Fisher 500C, I was in heaven ( he replaced the Fisher with a Sansui 881 deluxe, which did a better job of driving his AR3s. I did every modification possible to the Cornwalls ( vibration, ringing and resonance control ). The two systems sounded different, and were both excellent in their own ways. This was the beginning of my audio journey. I just liked, and still do, like horns. BTW, there are quite a few professional reviews of the Heresy 111s, just to give you some ideas of what folks think of them. Enjoy ! MrD.