In my pursuit today to purchase AVR and Speakers, I auditioned today Yamaha RX V667 amp with Yamaha 8900 package (NS8900 front towers and NSP8900 center and surround) and on the other hand Onkyo SR 608 with Elac Starlet 5 speakers series. The price I was offered was 73K for the Yamaha combo and 70.5K and the Onkyo - Elac combo was offered to me for 70K. Neither has subs. The Onkyo dealer also offered me TX SR608 with Jamo S406 5.1 combo (with sub) for 77K.
In my test the Yamaha sounded better with two floor stands and 2 sats with 1 center than the Onkyo Elac combo that had 5 single way sats (fronts, center and surr). However the Elacs inspite of being very very small produced unexpectedly good sound. For test I had used Adnan Sami's Tera Chehra Audio CD title track (i took it with me) and for Movie Yamaha guys played Transporter with lot of guns and at Onkyo side I played Kingdom of Heaven and Troi with Army Marching, crowd, fights, etc sounds. I was not able to audition today the Jamo 406 with Onkyo 608 but the onkyo dealer said it will be better than the Elac set with 7K more to spend which will also bring in the sub.
Can anyone help me with their suggestions on these speakers? since they are the ones that are available in kol in my budget (60K initially but now had to extend to 70K). Onkyo S9300 THX is available at 80K as Amp+7.1 speakers.
In my test the Yamaha sounded better with two floor stands and 2 sats with 1 center than the Onkyo Elac combo that had 5 single way sats (fronts, center and surr). However the Elacs inspite of being very very small produced unexpectedly good sound. For test I had used Adnan Sami's Tera Chehra Audio CD title track (i took it with me) and for Movie Yamaha guys played Transporter with lot of guns and at Onkyo side I played Kingdom of Heaven and Troi with Army Marching, crowd, fights, etc sounds. I was not able to audition today the Jamo 406 with Onkyo 608 but the onkyo dealer said it will be better than the Elac set with 7K more to spend which will also bring in the sub.
Can anyone help me with their suggestions on these speakers? since they are the ones that are available in kol in my budget (60K initially but now had to extend to 70K). Onkyo S9300 THX is available at 80K as Amp+7.1 speakers.