I have to replace the broken speakers for my Harmon Kardon 520
receiver. Unfortunately, I am on a very tight budget. The max I can
spend is $100/piece, i.e. $200/pair. The speakers will be mainly used
as the main speakers to watch movies but also listening to music once
in a while. I know $100 is not going to get me anywhere (my headphones
were considerably more expensive) but that's all I can afford right
now. Two speakers I saw are JBL E30 for $140/pair and Klipsch SB-1 for
$130/pair. Any opinions/suggestions and/or alternatives are greatly
appreciated.

Thanks

"rob" wrote ...
I have to replace the broken speakers for my Harmon Kardon 520
receiver. Unfortunately, I am on a very tight budget. The max I can
spend is $100/piece, i.e. $200/pair. The speakers will be mainly used
as the main speakers to watch movies but also listening to music once
in a while. I know $100 is not going to get me anywhere (my headphones
were considerably more expensive) but that's all I can afford right
now. Two speakers I saw are JBL E30 for $140/pair and Klipsch SB-1 for
$130/pair. Any opinions/suggestions and/or alternatives are greatly
appreciated.

My opinion is that you get more bang for your buck with something
like these. (Some assembly required :-)
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=300-640

Rob,

The max I can spend is $100/piece

As much as I hate to recommend anything from Behringer, their passive Truth
monitors are actually pretty darn good. Especially considering they cost
only $80 each at most audio/music stores.

--Ethan

On 2005-10-13 10:17:39 -0700, "Ethan Winer" ethanw at ethanwiner dot
com said:

Rob,

The max I can spend is $100/piece

As much as I hate to recommend anything from Behringer,

Why is that?

their passive Truth
monitors are actually pretty darn good. Especially considering they cost
only $80 each at most audio/music stores.

--Ethan


--
What a day this has been, what a rare mood I'm in.

Gerry,

Why is that?

Behringer has a reputation in the industry for stealing designs from other
companies, and cloning them in China to sell basically the same product much
more cheaply. I have nothing against making stuff in China. But stealing a
design is a different story.

--Ethan

Ethan Winer wrote:
Behringer has a reputation in the industry

B' has an a reputation among some portions of the industry. See archives
for much flaming about this; it appears that some of these assertions
are flat-out wrong.

Joe,

it appears that some of these assertions are flat-out wrong.

That's why I said "reputation" rather than accuse them directly. But I
remember when they cloned Mackie's 8-bus mixer, and the ensuing lawsuit, and
I recall a few other lawsuits.

--Ethan

Ethan Winer wrote:
That's why I said "reputation" rather than accuse them directly. But I
remember when they cloned Mackie's 8-bus mixer, and the ensuing lawsuit, and
I recall a few other lawsuits.

Lawsuits, or successful lawsuits? Innocent until _PROVEN_ guilty... and
even then, a jury is sometimes wrong.

"Joe Kesselman" wrote ...
Innocent until _PROVEN_ guilty

That standard is not uniform across the planet.

... and even then, a jury is sometimes wrong.

Joe,

even then, a jury is sometimes wrong.

Yeah, no kidding. Like the multi-BILLION dollar lawsuit won against Dow for
their silicon breast implants. That was clearly a situation where junk
science - heck, ANTI-science - prevailed over logic and reason.

As for Behringer v. Mackie, I don't know if Behringer cloned the 8-bus
mixer's circuits as well as the front panel layout. But I've seen both front
panels.

--Ethan

"Ethan Winer" ethanw at ethanwiner dot com wrote in
message
Joe,

even then, a jury is sometimes wrong.

Yeah, no kidding. Like the multi-BILLION dollar lawsuit
won against Dow for their silicon breast implants. That
was clearly a situation where junk science - heck,
ANTI-science - prevailed over logic and reason.

Agreed.

Court decisions are clearly affected by politics, but then
unfortunately is some of currrently-accepted science. Good
thing that even science admits that its results are
provisional. There's this fine tendency for the truth to out
in the end.