Beginner home theater setup questions...

I add my congratulations to paying off the loan.  I probably shouldn't opine hear, since I haven't heard the specific speakers that you are discussing, but a few thoughts.

1) In general, I think a set from the same manufacturer works better than a mishmash of different companies.  I have 2 HT systems in my house.  One has a speaker smorgasbord, the other all from one manufacturer.  I definitely prefer one from a single manufacturer (the AVR in the two is the same, more later), as one can actually hear not subtle timbre mismatches when playing music in the other one.  For video content this is less important.

2) I don't know if Denon is using room correction software in their AVRs, but I use Anthem AVR, with their Anthem RC, and this has made a big difference in both systems, particularly in the bass.  If you don't like RC you can disable it, but I think it is a valuable feature

I know the feeling. First I received a depressingly fat envelope with two coupon books, 1 with 60 coupons for 5 years and another with 36, 8 years total.

So another big congrats from me.

My take: you will make changes, you will learn, technology will change, so start out simple, affordable, go from there.

Speakers: your main L/R need to create decent l/c/r imaging for 3 people wide on a sofa, so wide dispersion is important. Move off-center while auditioning.

I feel forever lucky I got these DBX Soundfield 100's that were designed to do that for video

http://www.hifi-classic.net/review/dbx-soundfield-100-135.html

You want your center just below the monitor to anchor dialog to the screen, so think that thru, pay attention to the base: legs, solid platform, wall mount. Once I had my center behind the monitor

Donna is short, I am tall, we messed about with the monitor on stacks of books until we found the height that worked for us both, not too high it hurts your neck, not too low that I was viewing thru the lower part of my progressive lenses.

Then I built a riser on top of the cabinet to support the monitor at that height and luckily when I changed my center speaker, it just fit in the riser's height.

So, next month I pay off my student loans (in this world it seems crazy that it was possible, and in a profession that typically doesn't pay well...).

As a gift to myself and my family, I'm going to use that 'extra' money that I'll have to build out the home theater I've been pining for (being a part of this subreddit hasn't helped, lol). I love games and movies, so that's what it'll mostly be used for.

I don't think my room is setup well for a projector, or requires more than I'm able to put into it right now. Was planning on getting a nice OLED. It's an odd layout that has a slight drop ceiling over where the TV/screen would be. I'll post pictures later.

Anyways... My question is... Would it be better to get an all in one set of matching speakers. Like the Klipsch Reference Premiere set on Amazon for $2k? Or to piece together stuff from various sources. I'm still looking at around $2k for the speaker budget still.

I'm already planning on getting the Denon X1700h as a receiver. Christmas money and best buy rewards will cover that cost completely.

The only additional purchase I was thinking of was replacing the Klipsch sub with a SB1000 at some point too. https://xender.vip/ https://omegle.onl/

So basically... are the Klipsch Reference Premeire set on Amazon good starter speakers for a modest/low budget build? Or could something be put together fromultiple sources that's 'better' for roughly the same amount of money?

Thanks y'all!

I got this,..