My speaker quest is over! I ordered a pair of cherry HT2-TL's from Jim last night! I was so excited I could barely sleep and kept my wife awake blabbing about them and music in general. It was only a couple days ago when I sheepishly mentioned to her that someday I would like to spend vast sums of our limited retirement money on Salk speakers, so she sat down and figured out how we could work them into our budget! Oh what a lucky man am I!
Before my speaker quest began I really just wanted to upgrade my home theater so I started with a Denon 3808CI 7.1 channel receiver. I was very surprised at how much better my old speakers sounded with the new amp, and I started to listen to music again like I did many years ago with my little old NAD integrated stereo amp. Anyway, a few days ago I finally realized (again) that my true love is music, and that home theater is at best a side show. What I needed were two good fronts for >99% music use, not 7.1 speakers for that <1% of the time. So here I am all of a sudden on the verge of becoming a Salk newbie.
Music yes! Home theater, uh, not so much. Oh happy day!
I really can't thank all of you forum posters enough for the education you've given me both here and on AVS! I first stumbled upon Nuance's perfect speaker journey while googling for exactly that kind of information, and I was thrilled to find somebody on the same quest, although I was more on the home theater track at the time. I was really surprised to find out how similar his thoughts and opinions were to my own.
To Nuance I say
cheers and thanks for putting something out there for google to find!
And to Jim and crew
Thanks again everyone!
Mike
PS: Jim, are they done yet?
