Get speakers geared towards music first. It must be important to you, as you are on these forums.
I started, correction, re-started my journey back into ‘hifi’ by setting up a HT set-up with speakers more geared for that purpose. Problem, I soon realized they pretty much sucked for music, especially 2-channel music listening. And, as I began to seriously listen to music again, this became a problem. Additionally, listening fatigue was a huge problem with what I had.
In a rather brief but interesting journey, I now have Vandersteen 2CE Sigs as my mains, Vandersteen 1C’s as my rears, (originally purchased as my ‘new’ mains and replaced two months later with the 2CE Sigs), an ELAC Debut 2 C5.2 center, (which actually work well with the Vandys), and my original HT purchased budget BIC F12 sub (waiting you be replaced by one or two REL’s, but as the 2CE Sigs go pretty low on their own, not in a huge rush). All that for way under $2K. More like $1,300. All purchased used (the ELAC and BIC were open box finds). I’m not recommending anything above, that’s your subjective decision, but just an example of primary speakers made for music that work well in a HT set-up.
Bottom line, good musical speakers sound better than fine to great for HT.
As I have a subscription to the Berlin Philharmonic, and listen to live performances in 5.1, the musicality of all the speakers is important to me in that regard, and it does sound wonderful when using them for that purpose. Normal TV watching, I really don’t care, but it sounds great. As do the 2CE Sigs for 2-channel music listening. Which is the most important to me now.
