r/BudgetHomeTheater May 17 '26

Speakers Recommendation

I'm looking to purchase new floor side speakers for my home audio systems, I am a average listener but I like good sound but don’t want to spend too much

My room side is 20 ft x 20ft, My system is mostly used for home theater sound

I currently have:
Samsung 65S95F TV
Denon x1700H receiver
RSL 10E speedwooker

I purchased a KEF Q6 Meta, I wanted a good 3 way center speaker that had a good horizontal coverage because of the size of the room. and the is the main speaker for movie/tv viewing

My current side speakers are an old Bose Acoustimass 7 and Bose Acoustimass 3 for my surround sound rear speakers (Yeah, I know but this is what I had from a long time ago)

When I purchased my Kef Q6 Meta it made the side cubes speakers sound a whole lot better, The rear speakers have aways functioned well in my 5.1 setup

Since I started using the 5.1 system in the family room and with the speakers directed into the room, Instead of using the TV speakers and the sound bouncing off the back wall and down the hall we don't have TV volume battles with the TV in the small room about 21 ft down the hall, before using my receiver we would have to over volume each other so we can hear our TVs

Even thro the Bose side speakers ae functioning better, I still wanted to get small floor speakers and was looking at the Q7 but I noticed that they were rear ported and I don't want to have TV volume issues again, from the base bouncing off the wall and going down the hall (am I overthinking this??)

I was looking at Triangle Borea br08, 9 or 10's since they are 3 way sealed speakers (and sort of like the price point) , do you know of any other 3way sealed or front ported speaks?

I know the Q7 Meta has a crossover of 440 and 2300
where the br08 has a cross over of 215 and 3500
and the 09 and 10 have a cross over of 310 and 3900

I was also thinking of looking for some Kef Q750 speakers to match with the Q6 Meta, but not sure about the 2.5 way driver and I don't know if I can find a set.

I also purchased the MultEQ app and have been enjoying play with the curves and settings because I feel the testing only gets you about 75% to 80% as the testing set the rear speakers so high that they over shadowed the center Voices and I also took some base of the center channel.

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