confused and don't know what to do


We would like to buy a nice audio system and also have this double as a surround sound but listening to music is the priority. We have listened to many speakers but have settled on the B&W 804's. Now the challenge is to select a receiver and all the other accompaniments we require. We have a little challenge in that our home is a condo and the outside wall is all glass. The space is combined kitchen, living room, and dining room all open with hardwood floors and hard tile on the walls of the kitchen and a lot of granite counter tops. It seems that every where we go, the recommendations are different depending on what the store is selling and of course, the sales people would like us to buy the most expensive. What would give great sound without going crazy. We are thinking about 2 tribe sub woofers and space is limited and an in wall center B&W speaker but we don't know what we are doing and don't want to throw our money away. Help! Too many choices and we don't have enough knowledge. Thank you so much.
raw33
Got to agree with the plan of using a surround sound receiver with a tasty integrated to drive the left and right fronts. The integrated will provide a better input for your 2 channel source(LP CD ...).The receiver will give you the better movie sound with the advantage of freeing up some of the receivers watts for the other channels and increasing the quality of the two fronts.
@audiotroy

"Rbach we write on these forums not to necessarily sell anything, we have helped clients from all over the country, and even in other countries all without selling them anything."

Mr. Lalin,  If you would like us to believe that you are participating in this forum to help clients and 'not necessarily sell anything'...think again. You search DAILY through the forum looking for sales opportunities. You have sent Private Messages to many of my friends after reading (in this forum) that they were in the market for a component. You discount the product they were considering and pitch the product YOU sell.

Everyone has the right to contribute in this public forum. It's your know-it-all attitude and pushy sales tactics that are so off putting.
I have no doubt that audiotroy wants to sell product, but I’ve not found his comments to be "pushy".
@mtrot

Totally respect your opinion. For a dealer to occasionally recommend a product is fine, but to promote the products he carries every day in a public forum is "pushy"......glad you're ok with it.
rbach sorry you feel that way but the reality is our company has way more experience with most of the products that are being discussed here then many people on these boards. 

Our line list it very wide and most of the time if a product is hot we are going to pursue getting it if we feel that the addition of that line is going to be beneficial. 

Our business model provides for a low overhead which enables us to funnel more money into product acccquisitions than many of the large stores we compete with. 

We also go to most of the other audio shows around the country and get a chance to listen to a huge variety of gear. 

Also we have over 30 years of experience in designing both music and home theater systems. 

Rbach very rarely do we PM anybody, however, you are correct that we do chime in on conversations that we have products that we may feel may be of interest to the poster,  we can not write in every forum post there just isn't enough time. 

As per talking about products that we don't sell, perhaps the reason we don't sell them is that we feel that the products we currently have are better or may offer similar perfromance for less money. 

We sell over 60 brands of gear we have lines we don't endorse we perfer Kef over B&W, we don't like Mcintosh gear, nor Dagastino, don't love Vandersteen, we make our biases well known and there are reasons  why we don't carry these brands:

Mcintosh uses Automformers which are unnecssary with a solid state amplfier and limit transparency, don't like Dagastino too expensive for the sound quality and you are paying a lot for the styling, Vandersteen sounds too rolled off for most models, we can go on an on, Magico tends to sound a bit on the boring side to us etc, etc. 

Rbach most dealers believe the products they sell are better for a reason we have a ton of great everything, we don't force or endorse any one line more than any other, if you come to our shop we would recommend Paradigm, or Kef, or Legacy or possibly Alta audio or Vimberg for our best loudspeakers. 

However, for applications like theater the KEF line is one of our best recommendations as the dual concentric tweeter provides a true point source and the slight flared design on the cone provides a wide dispersion capablity that most loudspeakers lack.

Rbach we have a superb track record of assisting clients all over the country some people have directly purchased from us while others have not, but have still been thrilled with the products and advise.

We have extolled the sound quality of the Micromega line and have talked with several clients that purchased the M100 or M150 and have loved the piece, we have sold  not a single one to anyone on these boards. 

The fact is that there are tons of people with opinions we have the direct experience, product knowledge and product selection to be able to make a rationale discussion on to the merits and to the pros and cons of most of the products on the market. 

You can choose to read our posts or not to read them. 

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ