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Yeah. The issue with tower speakers is There's absolutely nowhere I can set them up in my bedroom. I WOULD set my speakers and receiver up in my living room BUT I don't care about having my PS3 or movies through them nearly as much as my music, and there's not really any convenient way i can make my library available in my living room anytime soon.
though, I was unable to find the pioneer SP-BS52. Did you mean the FS52? http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-SP-FS52-LR-Designed-standing-Loudspeakers/dp/B008NCD2S4/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1358781886&sr=1-2&keywords=SP-BS52 ?
I think I might get the wharfdale 10.1's and the polk sub for the moment and maybe around my birthday in july i'll look into getting a center channel and a couple tower speakers and re-arranging.
err, who makes a sturdy, durable cable that isn't wallet breaking ?
No sorry I was confused it's the 41 and 21(2) not the 4 and 5.
http://www.stereophile.com/content/pioneer-sp-bs41-lr-loudspeaker
What I am saying is that I would not personally use the 42's (or 10.1's but at least there 5") with out a sub and sense your main use is for music listening I would go with a full range 2.0 vs a 2.1 or 3.1 for movies and music, id spend the extra money from the sub on the speakers. So sense the FS51's are no longer available and the FS52's are double what I payed for the 51's, I would pick the older BS41's over the BS22's if I was using them in a 2.0 even though the 22's are newer and sound a little better they have a 4" driver instead of the 5 and 1/4" on the 41.
Same with the 10.1's id get the 10.2's for a 2.0 but I got a deal at a local place and probably wouldn't of spent $450 on them.
Where your stuff is at is literally in a box with no room on the right or left for towers? You could get the 10.1's and then move them to the rears when you get tower's but I would make sure you like the 10.1's when you get them because you will want to stick with Diamond towers and they wont have much bass on there own. You can go with the 10.1's or the BS22's and a sub, the only reason I'm advising otherwise is that your main use seems to be with music and movies sort of being an after thought.
Here's how I see, it for movies if you can't afford 5.1 or only a cheap 5.1, get better speakers and go 3.0 with big towers or 2.1 with bookshelves or 3.1 if you can afford it and then get towers or large bookshelves and move to a 5.0 if music listening is important with a sub last or a 5.1 if you had a sub, or want bookshelves front and rear if you mainly watch movies, but for music 2.0 with large bookshelves or towers is the best. I'm probably to picky and a sub would be fine but I see them as more fun than sound quality and musical unless they are purpose made for a 2.1 configuration for audiophile music like the Magnepan MMG and bass panel or the Pioneers and the SW-8 but I think its to small, I'm sure there are other examples I just can't think of any.
The thing with the Pioneer stuff is that it is sooooo good and soooooooooo cheap it's hard to compare to, they totally crush 2.0 computer speakers, even without a sub and small plastic speakers and little satellite package things don't have a chance either, not to mention the Pioneers have better build quality and real binding posts, and they sound just as good (personal preference comes into play) as Klipsch, Energy and Polk's cheaper offerings that are double what the pioneers are ($200 for bookshelf pair $400-$420 for tower pair) or more so you really have to get into something like the Diamond 10.1's or Paradigm Monitor bookshelvs or the Klipsch RF-52's etc. to find a better value.
http://www.stereophile.com/content/polk-audio-rtiii-a3-loudspeaker
http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/psb_image_b6_loudspeaker/index.html
For cables the only premium thing I can think of is Kimber SV4 or unterminated Audioquest Type-4, it's like half the price of the terminated stuff, but honestly I would just get some basic 14 or 16awg stuff and get some banana or spades so you only have to deal with stripping and not breaking off strands once, and a good wire stripper/crimper, or there's Bluejeans cable.
