What the maker puts in writing
- “COMPLETE HOME THEATER BUNDLE: Includes the Energy Take Classic 5.1 speaker system with subwoofer plus the Denon AVR-S670H 75W 5.2-channel 8K network AV receiver”
- “POWERFUL 200W SUBWOOFER: Energy’s 8” subwoofer with Ribbed Elliptical Surround delivers deep, rich bass”
- “8K HDMI AV RECEIVER: Denon AVR-S670H supports 8K/60Hz and 4K/120Hz passthrough”
- “HEOS WIRELESS STREAMING: Stream music with HEOS Built-in, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and AirPlay 2, plus enjoy multi-room audio with compatible HEOS speakers”
- “COMPACT HIGH-GLOSS DESIGN: Energy satellite speakers feature MDF cabinets, aluminum dome tweeters and a sleek black finish”
The useful thing about this listing is that it decomposes
The same Energy speakers appear twice on this shelf:
Energy 5.1 Take Classic — $275 — reference 1008207 — speakers only
This bundle — $749 — reference 1008207 K — plus a Denon AVR-S670H
So the receiver is $474.
And the same arithmetic works on the Klipsch side, where three bundles share reference 1065841: BB at $1,298 (speakers), KA at $1,799.99 (+ Onkyo TX-NR7100), KF at $2,198.99 (+ Onkyo and a second subwoofer). The Onkyo is $501.99.
Two receivers from two different ranges, priced within thirty dollars of each other as an add-on. That is a genuinely useful benchmark, because five products on this shelf are speakers only and none of them quotes what the missing amplifier costs.
The receiver is the modern half
Denon AVR-S670H — 75 W — 5.2 channel — 8K network.
Three things worth drawing out.
4K at 120 Hz pass-through. That is what a current games console wants. A receiver without it forces you to plug the console into the television directly — which means losing the surround path, or accepting a lower refresh rate. Yamaha’s YHT-5960U at $749.95 publishes the same capability plus ALLM and VRR; Yamaha’s YHT-4950U at $499.99 publishes only 4K at 60.
Seventy-five watts is an honest per-channel figure. Set it against the Goldwood at $120.88 claiming “700 watts system power” unqualified, and the Sony at $329 claiming 600 W. The smaller number is the real one.
5.2 channel means five speaker channels and two subwoofer outputs — so a second subwoofer can be added later, which is how the $2,198.99 Klipsch bundle on this shelf justifies its price.
HEOS, Wi-Fi, AirPlay 2 and multi-room is the streaming platform, and it is worth noting that the Klipsch bundle at $1,799.99 claims “Built-in HEOS streaming” alongside an Onkyo receiver — a combination worth verifying, since the platform decides which app controls the system.
And the speakers are the 2009 half
The Energy Take Classic is the same system the $275 listing describes, and that listing dates it itself: “A CNET Editor’s Choice winner for February 2009.”
On passive speakers that matters less than it would anywhere else — a cabinet, a driver, a tweeter and a crossover of capacitors and coils, with no firmware and no codecs to go stale.
What has moved on is the format. Dolby Atmos did not exist in domestic form in 2009, and this is a flat 5.1.
The materials published here are sound: MDF cabinets rather than plastic, aluminum dome tweeters, and the subwoofer’s Ribbed Elliptical Surround — a corrugated, non-circular surround that stays linear over a longer excursion, which is how you get bass output from only 8 inches of cone area.
The gap is height, and it is the gap at this exact price
No up-firing drivers, nothing for Atmos to use — and a 5.2 receiver, which does not have the channels to drive height speakers even if you added them. Atmos needs 7.1.2 at minimum.
Three products sit within a dollar of each other on this shelf and each solves a different third of the problem:
Energy + Denon, $749 — receiver, 8K, 4K120, streaming · flat 5.1
Klipsch Reference Cinema 5.1.4, $749.99 — four Atmos height channels, front and back · no receiver
Yamaha YHT-5960U, $749.95 — receiver, 8K HDMI 2.1, ALLM and VRR, speaker wire matched per speaker · flat 5.1
None of the three is all of it.
What is not published
No speaker wire stated, where both Yamaha systems include it — and the YHT-5960U supplies it “perfectly matched for each speaker”.
No satellite driver sizes, no frequency response, no sensitivity — where the Klipsch R-620F pack at $988.89 publishes 96 dB, the only sensitivity figure on this shelf.
No warranty, where two Klipsch listings publish five years.
No room calibration stated, where both Yamahas publish YPAO and the big Klipsch bundles publish “automatic room calibration”.
29,982 g is published.
Prices quoted in this text were read on October 4, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
