I know it sounds weird having 'gaming' speakers in your living room but they really sound good. (if you replace the wires with some decent gauge wire)

Since I've initially set up my living room I've replaced almost every component since then but I still haven't found a set of speakers I like without going over the $1000 mark, which honestly I'm not ready to do yet.

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(1) "Build quality is the other thing. A "dead box," or an enclosure that doesn't create any sounds of its own-since that's distortion-is key and something that costs a lot of money.". Not true. The standard acoustically-dead material is MDF (you'll find it used as the cabinet for all speakers under around $10K, and most above that price), and it's cheap stuff. Open up a speaker, even a really high-end one, and you'll find an MDF box filled with fiberglas insulation.

(2) The super-exotic speakers are only suitable for large, really large, listening areas. There are a couple of dozen speaker makers which make lovely-sounding speakers that are suitable for average living spaces, well under $900/pair.

(3) Speakers are the one component in a listening systems that matters the most. Amps/receivers, CD players, and other electronics are basically all the same sounding.

But as with almost everything, the price-performance curve with speakers is logarithmic, so you can have 90% of the best experience for 5% the cost.

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Anyone?

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