Best bookshelves under 1000

[blackraven]

For a warm sound I would take the NHT Classic 3's over the B&W's any day of the week.
They have excellent mid bass and very good bass for a bookshelf. I auditoned them and compared them to the B&W 685's, a few paradigm studio monitors and dynaudio's and there was no comparison in warmth, bass and a sense of fullness to the music with the NHT's. The B&W's did have better high frequency sound, but paired with the right amp and CDP the NHT's are great. You should give them an audition and see if you can take them home for a trial.

In comparing the dynaudio's to the 685's head to head on Rotel equipment, the 685's had much better sound.

I think that when people audition speakers they tend to lean towards slightly brighter sounding speakers when they audition them in the store, but when they get them home and listen to them for hours they tend to be disappointed.

[Bigmoney]

Do you think pairing rotel equipment with the nhts would be nice and possibly help out the lack of high frequency in the nht.