RichK wrote:

Hi All,

Not really a repair...and I do not see this asked here much.

Am interested in installing a couple of decent, but not very expensive
speakers in the kitchen. Say, in the $250 range.

Would prefer surface, or on speaker brackets. Do not want a separate
subwoofer, as it needs cables and space.

Anyone can recommend a good brand from experience?

There's a box near the ceiling with cables, which is OK for one speaker.
Would have to run something from that one to the other speaker on the
surface.

Mainly looking for a recommendation on speakers. They may have to be a bit
bigger to produce acceptable base without a subwoofer.

Rich

The recommendation would tend to be influenced by what you will be
driving the speakers with.

A good small speaker with a decent range is the JBL (professional)
Control series like the Control 1. I believe they also package the
Control 1 speakers with a sub as a consumer line package, but they do
quite well without a sub. Plenty of other small pro monitor type
speakers similar to this out there as well.

Whatever you do, don't buy into the Bose marketing hype, their speakers
are not better than any of the quality name brand competition and their
tiny units are often blown up by people who bought the hype overdriving
them. I know this from a number of years in the pro audio world,
including a year doing repairs and seeing all the blown up Bose cubes
coming in,

Pete C.