Good speaker system for dollar

Look at psb Stratus Goldi's. Very musical with excellent authoritive bass for HT.

I recommend that you add the Vandersteen home theater speaker system to your audition list. The system is built around Vandy's Model 1C front speaker, and includes the center channel speaker, surround speakers, and V2W subwoofer (with built-in 300 watt amp). The entire system retails for $3600, and is a fine sounding package that works very well for both HT and music. You can either buy the system as a whole, or assemble it as your budget allows. You may also want to consider having the Model 2Ce speakers rather than the Model 1C's. You could buy the various elements of the system here on Audigon and stay within your budget, and have a substantially better all-purpose system than just buying speakers intended for HT.

Here's the link to the Vandy web page for the HT system:
http://www.vandersteen.com/pages/vandersteen_home_theater.htm

Check out Norh.com. For your price range you could get a pair of 6.9sms; an three Norh 4s. You cannot do better for anything close IMHO.

Not connected to Norh in any way (other than happy customer).

Look at the JMLabs-Raven Monitors I am selling. They will blow you away at $1200.00 They perform like 10,000$ speakers. Being involved in the speaker manufacturing business, I can tell you it has the best drivers(jm labs, raven) and parts(axon)