what speakers?

[bigdessert]

Hello, I just got done moving into my new house that we built. I am now moving from my tv sitting on a stand to wall mounted.

I need some suggestions on some good quality stereo speakers for basic tv watching. I dont want surround sound, just good stereo quality. I want these to mount beside the tv on the wall.

Please let me know your suggestions as I know nothing about speakers.

Thanks!

[paulbeers]

The real question is always "what is your budget" and "what do you have for room". If all you want is noise, then by all means go buy some computer speakers or us the ones built into the tv.

Anything else, and its straight to a Home Theater setup for me.

[bigdessert]

well budget is sub 0-$300.
I want them to mount on the wall and I have lots of space on the wall. I am looking for something in between that built in speaker setup and a true home theater setup.

Thanks

[stanger89]

Well, I'll jump directly to one of my favorite standbys:
http://www.paradigm.com/en/paradigm/...ronts.paradigm

I'm also quite fond of the Klipsch Reference series (which spans the gamut in price).

I've got a set of Cinema 70's that I use random places as I need them. They sound very good, at least considering they're rather tiny.

One thing you'll need to consider is how you're going to power them. I don't know if your TV has "speaker level" outputs suitable for directly driving speakers. If not, you'll need some sort of amplifier, be it in the form of an AVR, standalone, or even active speakers.

Speakers for $300 wouldn't be too hard, you can get some pretty nice speakers for $300. But if you need amplification, then it gets trickier.

[bigdessert]

well my tv has hookup for red/black wires for speakers, right now i have a pair of my onkyo speakers hooked to it and they work, but dont sound very good, maybe thats the amp part??

[stanger89]

That sounds like it should do what you want. If you're going that route, I'd make sure to look for speakers with an eye on sensitivity. You're probably going to want to shoot for something with a pretty high sensitivity since I doubt your TV has much in the way of an amp. I see the Cinema 220 has a sensitivity of 93dB/w/m. That's pretty good.

What TV do you have? And what do you find lacking about your Onkyo's (which ones are they)?

[bigdessert]

i have this tv

http://www.hdtvsolutions.com/Maxent-MX-42VM11.htm

and a set of the surround ones from this package

http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?m=...ss=Speaker&p=f