I've liked Klipsch from way back when I heard the Khorns at Shrader Sound in NW Washington, D.C. Always wanted a pair and was planning to build the Speakerlab version when I realized they'd be too big for my apartment, and build the '7's' instead. My primary home theater is all Klipsch Reference, which sounds pretty good for what it is.
Although most sane people would never think, I feel my '7's are easily the equal of any of the larger Heritage speakers, LaScala or Cornwall. They were extensively modified, with new enclosures, baffles, mundorf crossovers, and of course, the new horns. Course, I'm probably a tad partial to them after listening now for over 30yrs, so please understand it's just my opinion.
This is why I'm here: to open my eyes, sorry, ears, and hear a new world, the one most of you guys have created.
I heard the JBL Everest's two years ago and never forgot that sound. I'm essentially looking for something along that line, but don't really want to drop $60K (yeah, the wife will understand if I sell our house to buy some speakers). I've seen how some, perhaps many, of the members have bought or built BIG speakers that have tremendous presence, bass, soundstage width and depth. Speakers like EV Sentry IIIs are at the front of my list, but would not be adverse to building something with Altecs.
Probably not looking for horn woofers, as they're usually bigger like the K-horns, and EV Sentry IV (right?) but my listening room could take speakers that size if the sound justified them.
So, what do you guys think of the Sentry III?