I noticed some people coming from Google looking for reviews or information on the Acoustic Research HC6 speakers. Now, admittedly, there isn’t much on the web out there, so I can see how my post, however content free could have made it’s way up there, after all, even AudioReview doesn’t have a review on it.. To help out those poor searching souls out though, here’s what I found when doing research: Google Groups has one or two posts, basically mentioning the The Perfect Vision‘s very positive review ($3 if you want to read it, I didn’t bother). Just recently (after I got my speakers, I found a review of the AR HC6 at AudioRevolution, a very cool site. Now, they like the Energy Take 5.2‘s better, and there certainly are more reviews of the Take 5.2‘s online (also, here’s a review by Sound and Vision and a 5.2 review at AudioRevolution). I got my HC6’s pricematched at 800.com to $457+s/h (looks like 800.com no longer pricematches, or doesn’t advertise it anymore at least). Doing a quick search shows two (very similar) places w/ Take 5.2’s for around the same price range (Note though, that in both cases, the Energy 8.2 Subwoofer is being sold separately for $225, so your total price ends up being probably around $750 w/ shipping to the HC6’s $500; the price difference and my preference for how the HC6 looked made my decision; shallow, but we’re not talking about a big difference in quality on high end equipment or anything anyway. Having gone and tested a number of various lower and higher end systems, either would do equally well for my purposes, I’m sure.)
I picked up my Harman Kardon AVR-520 (purchased from etronics.com) from UPS yesterday, and will be figuring how much speaker wire I’ll be needing to hook everything up tonight. I’ll post up my own review this weekend when I get everything setup.