B&W 801 vs 803s

Two comments- 1. Not sure how much diff this makes with HT, unless you are playing music DVDs.
2. I have never been a big fan of B&W, but the D series w the right upstream equipment can be remarkable. Check out member dougdeacon's system. When he went from the 803 to the 803D, most of my complaints about the B&Ws went away. I think that they are very revealing and require VERY careful selection of source and amplification. That typically means $$$, but not always. Maybe that's irrelevant given the HT use.
Not dumping on HT, by IME, the video quality generally drives the subjective experience in HT, not the audio. I must admit that I have only once heard/seen an SOTA HT, and that was over 10 years ago.

I have two home theatre systems at home. MY main listening room i use for both ht and stereo listening. I do watch a lot of concert dvd's. With the Wilsons and the Egglestons i was using Krell TAS 5 channel amp. Before that I used a 5 channel Classe. From what I hear a lot of guys listening to stereo only prefer tubes.

There is a guy on Audiogon I think he is called dolfin? He sells lots of Eggleston stuff. Get ahold of him i bet he can get you a pair of Andra 1's in the 5 to 6k range. I beleive he sells new egglestons as well. The used ones he can get might come totaly refurbished from the factory with new drivers etc. Nice man an he knows his stuff.

You can also buy Sophhias for around 5K. They are available all the time and when people get the bug and want to move something they will sell them cheap.

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My system is very hard to set up because of the location and most of it is very hard to get to and it runs the whole house so when i buy new electronics i have to pay my installer to come out and it always cost me hundreds of dollars. For that reason I dont experiment with electronics as much as i would like to. The Krell and Classe stuff sounds good to me but i am sure there are much better amps for similar dollars out there.

The best place to find out about those things is right here. I would suggest if you go with Wilson you will want to makes ure your interconnects and everything else upstream is very good. If not it will show.

I was just surfing and find all the different opinions interesting but at the the end of the day it's what type of music you listen to and what you end up hearing from your speakers.
I currently own the B&W 802D's matched with Brystons 7BSST mono amp and Bryston BP26 pre-amp. Honestly, at first I thought they lacked the base punch and tried Rel 505R sub which was fine but when I changed my speaker cable to Virtual Dynamics Master. Wow!!! what a difference in sound that allowed me to sell the Rel sub, so cable do make a difference and it's only by trial and error until you find the sound that makes you comfortable. OMP and best of luck.

Obviously none of the speaker in this thread are good enough to keep them as many folks get new ones every few years - or even more frequently.

Of course it is also coupled with adavncement in speaker technology, new amps, pre-phono stages etc.. But still - very few real winners.