Need advice on Floor Speakers

[StimpsonJCat]

You only need to worry about wattage on speakers if you are using an amp rated higher than the speaker. Your only concern should be if you go with 4 (or 6) Ohm speakers instead of 8 Ohm. Then you might want to see if you AVR can handle driving them.

As far as what towers to get I'd recommend going to stores and listening to different brands. Klipsch use horn tweeters and most consider them to be bright. IMHO they are great with rock music, but for the most part they are too bright for me. Most love or hate the Klipsch sound so it really boils down to if you like their sound or not.

Several brands to check out:

Polk Audio
Energy
Boston Acoustics
Monitor Audio
Paradigm
PSB
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