If you are going to go with Klipsch then go with the Heritage line and preferably the Klipschorn. You can find them in like new condition sometimes on ebay for between 2 and 3k. The beautiful thing about the K-horn is that you can upgrade drivers and crossovers 2 decades after the purchase and have new speakers. Also those speakers will literally last a life time.

After owning virtually every Klipsch speaker in the Heritage line and having listened to the new line of Klipsch products I must tell you I have been disappointed. I have talked to other Klipsch fanatics who concur with my point of view. Take some of your favorite quality recordings to the local audio store and listen to the synergy and reference lines. Then go listen to a pair of K-horns. The K-horns sound real while the former sound electronic.

I never understood what those words on CD's mean't, something to the effect... because of the CDs high resolution, limitation of the source material may be present. In other words you will hear tape hiss big time on most CD's with K-horns and never notice it on other speakers including some of the newer Klipsch products. Once you taste of the Heritage line especially the Klipshorn you can never go back.