Need help to choose good speakers for my Yamaha-610 II amplifier

[TheHills44060]

All great suggestions but it's really going to come down to what your you prefer. The PSB's would be my suggestion followed by the Wharfedales and the Energy's. I wouldn't even take the Paradigms or Monitor Audio's if you gave them to me for free and I wouldn't touch the Klipsch's if you paid me. Give as many a listen as you can because you may have a completely different opinion.

I'm not to hip on Energy speakers! I think anything Jensen makes, coming out of China. Can't be all that......lol. What do you guys think?

I've used Jensen speakers in guitar cabinets and they were pretty damn good. In fact I installed Jensen's in my very first car and for a broke high school kid they weren't half bad, certainly better than the factory speakers. Aren't most Klipsch speakers built in China now? Guess I don't understand at all what point you are trying to make?

[Mr Peabody]

Jensen of today is not the Jensen that dominated the car speaker market in the 70's & most of the 80's. If I'm not mistaken their name was sold and who knows who they are today. Sold in the same way as Memorex and Koss.

Klipsch goes through phases of good and not so good. The vintage Forte & Chorus are very good, the current and prior Reference are good. I like the Heritage series as well. As I stated earlier though some love them and some don't. I like certain models but not as a main speaker, with a vintage amp like the Yamaha though they could be good. TAS recently did a review on the current Heresy III. The Klipsch are brutally honest and much of their bad rep is due to the electronics used to drive them. Well, and other attributes to the bad rep was the cheezy stuff they let into Best Buy.

Paradigm I like but I suspect most people under power them which leaves them a bit bass shy. They are around 93dB efficient but seem to require current to get them to sound balanced. The best I've heard a set sound was a Studio 100 with an Adcom gfa-5500 on the woofers and bridged mono NAD on each top end. Now that I think of it, that may be because we were able to adjust the level on the NAD's which helped to balance the sound.

[JoeyP73]

Yeah, Jensen of today, is not like the Jensen of yesteryear! As for Klipsch, I only use pre 80's kornerhorns, heritage, kg's, etc... I also like any Paul Klipsch item he produced! The new Reference Series is actually pretty sweet. Just stay away from the two or three Chinese series, the put out. Reference are still designed and built in the U.S.A.......

[yozhek]

Thanks guys!
I appreciate your discussion.

[JoeE SP9]

I'm surprised so few of the responses have suggested actually auditioning some speakers instead of talking about them.

yozhek, you should search out every mid to high end dealer within a reasonable distance and actually audition some speakers. Otherwise, all you've got are recommendations of someone's favorite brand or particular speaker. What I like you may not and vice versa.

Buying speakers on a recommendation without auditioning them first is like letting someone else choose your mail order bride. The chances are slim to none that you'll like what you get.

[Mr Peabody]

No one said it because it goes without saying.

I'm surprised so few of the responses have suggested actually auditioning some speakers instead of talking about them.

yozhek, you should search out every mid to high end dealer within a reasonable distance and actually audition some speakers. Otherwise, all you've got are recommendations of someone's favorite brand or particular speaker. What I like you may not and vice versa.

Buying speakers on a recommendation without auditioning them first is like letting someone else choose your mail order bride. The chances are slim to none that you'll like what you get.

[JoeyP73]

I have a brand new set of Defini_​tive techs bp10-b. I'll let them go for 400.00 for the pair! Those would Rock well with the old Yamaha amp.....

[blackraven]

I'm surprised so few of the responses have suggested actually auditioning some speakers instead of talking about them.

yozhek, you should search out every mid to high end dealer within a reasonable distance and actually audition some speakers. Otherwise, all you've got are recommendations of someone's favorite brand or particular speaker. What I like you may not and vice versa.

Buying speakers on a recommendation without auditioning them first is like letting someone else choose your mail order bride. The chances are slim to none that you'll like what you get.

I think we all just gave him some suggestions of speakers to look at in his price range.

[yozhek]

Thanks again.
Certainly I have to listen prior to buy. I just needed some ideas and this this discussion was great and helpful for me.