HELLO ... to all my music lovers. I am a new guy to this forum and to the speaker world. I have been reading every single post on this forum for about 10 days and now thought to just drop in and say Hi to everyone.

Obvisouly the intention to read all the posts were to get a good grip of the terminology and the equipment that the people are interested in and to learn as much as I can without asking much questions. But what ever u read and do, we all endedup asking (I guess its the easiest way to learn). Well that said, would really like to ask all of you one question...

WHY THE HELL THERE ARE SO MANY SPEAKERS TO CHOOSE FROM ???

I walked into the B&W speaker showroom the otherday without a clue and u should see my face at the end of 1 hour...I was as blank as a white paper. With all the terms the sales rep used and the techologies he explained...well that embarassed me to death and I started reading this forum much intensly to make sense of our conversation. Over 10days I got the grasp of the terms and tecnologies (well sorta).

After all this, the ULTIMATE QUESTION remains. WHAT TO BUY??? And my friends I know what u gonna ask...WHATS UR BUDGET...right?
Well how much a "decent" system costs? To define what decent to me means is this...

1) I should be able to play movies with good sound effects without spending a fortune on the audio equipment (80 % movies)

2) I should also need something that plays well with music (20 %).

3) What receiver/amp/preamp should I get to drive these speakers

4)What are the brands I should look at?

Friends I know I ask too many questions but I am sharing my frustration with you all.

So far I auditioned...B&W's, Paradigms and Klipshs.


GIVE ME YOUR OPINIONS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS POST. PLZ.

-Newbieeee.