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BallinWithNash
03-14-2010, 09:08 PM
Ok, so I want a 3 three way speaker with at least an 8inch woofer for around 400$ give or take ... it is for home theater, what do you guys think? Polk, Harmon Kardon, what are B&W's running for these days haha ... anyways the room is kind of big. It can be bookshelf or floorstanding ... I don't think you will find a 3 way bookshelf with an 8inch woofer but if you can great haha. Thanks in advance!!

02audionoob
03-14-2010, 09:15 PM
The JBL S38 was a bookshelf speaker with an 8-inch woofer.

BallinWithNash
03-14-2010, 09:18 PM
Great find audionoob ... im already starting to like these haha .. and thank you

02audionoob
03-14-2010, 09:20 PM
You can sometimes find them around...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=jbl+s38

BallinWithNash
03-14-2010, 09:21 PM
Hahaha omg that was awesome ... i just went to amazon and searched them then came back and you had the amazon link ... great minds think a like haha

02audionoob
03-14-2010, 09:37 PM
We are great minds, huh? Within your budget you could even afford the center speaker, too.

http://www.amazon.com/JBL-S-Center-Center-Channel-Speaker/dp/B00002EQBM

BallinWithNash
03-14-2010, 09:42 PM
yea I got a velodyne for that ... the story is originally I had some really old infinity's that were my mains but when I moved I didn't want to lug them up here and one was going out, so i figured i would just get a decent set for movies cause I have JBL's and Polk's for my main listening room

BallinWithNash
03-14-2010, 09:43 PM
and great minds umm well it depends on who you are comparing us to haha

blackraven
03-14-2010, 09:53 PM
How about a pair of Cerwin Vega CLS-10's.

http://www.cerwinvega.com/CLS10.php

BallinWithNash
03-14-2010, 09:58 PM
Cerwin looks okay to me who do you think would have the better sound quality?

poppachubby
03-15-2010, 03:19 AM
and great minds umm well it depends on who you are comparing us to haha

Agreed, now that I have entered this thread...

Why 3-way? Have you considered a nice full range instead?

02audionoob
03-15-2010, 06:01 AM
yea I got a velodyne for that ... the story is originally I had some really old infinity's that were my mains but when I moved I didn't want to lug them up here and one was going out, so i figured i would just get a decent set for movies cause I have JBL's and Polk's for my main listening room

You would be better off with a matched set along the three front and center speakers. The three JBL S series speakers would cost less than the two Cerwin-Vega CLS speakers, but it seems like the CLS speakers might be good - based on what has been said in this forum. You might want to dig up some reviews on both the JBL and the Cerwin-Vega. Here's an example...

http://www.stereophile.com/budgetcomponents/365/

BallinWithNash
03-15-2010, 08:42 AM
Poppa full range speaker's don't usually hit the lows and from what I have heard are usually very cheap and have bad sound quality so I would prefer at least a 3 way

BallinWithNash
03-15-2010, 09:02 AM
Audionoob thank you again ... I read the review and he seemed to like them ... and found a great deal on those speakers 550$ for them the center and floorstanding S312's

Nasir
03-31-2010, 02:52 PM
I am from Portugal, and the more popular brands in decent audio stores here before I bought my Final Sound Electrostatic speakers were ( not in any particular order ):
KEF ( the IQ series were my favorites for a while ), Mordaunt Short Avant series, B&W Bowers & Wilkins nautilus series, JBL ES series,Monitor Audio BRONZE series, Infinity Betas, Jamo, Epos AND then for those with deeper pockets: Sonus Faber, Quad, Dali, Focal JM Labs and for the exotic speaker fans Martin Logans, Magnepans, etc....

JoeE SP9
03-31-2010, 03:13 PM
Hey Nasir;
How's it going with those Final Sound ESL's? Did you ever get your position/wall reflection problem straightened out?

MikeyBC
04-04-2010, 10:20 AM
With your budget you'll probably get a better sounding and better quality 2-way.

waxey
04-10-2010, 07:22 AM
The Yamaha NS-6490 has a 8" woofer 4" mid range 7/8" tweeter they list for $150.00 you can get them for about $100.00. I had them as surounds for 2 years with Paradigm Studio 40s V4 as my fronts they worked well togeather. great speaker for the price.