Is this a good start to my new sound world?

Yucca

Yucca

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Hi all,

Ok i have a set of 5.1 creative speakers running on my onboard sound at the moment on my pc. I use my pc for pritty much everything, watching dvds, xbox 360 and music and games.

I have been thinking of getting an amp and speakers as the common belief seems to be that the sound is a lot better.

I want to do a bit at a time and dont want to spend to much at once as i dont have much.

I say this on sale and wondered if it would be a good start if i get it and buy a set of bookshelf mordant shorts?

http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=YAMA-RXV361
 
Yucca said:
Hi all,

Ok i have a set of 5.1 creative speakers running on my onboard sound at the moment on my pc. I use my pc for pritty much everything, watching dvds, xbox 360 and music and games.

I have been thinking of getting an amp and speakers as the common belief seems to be that the sound is a lot better.

I want to do a bit at a time and dont want to spend to much at once as i dont have much.

I say this on sale and wondered if it would be a good start if i get it and buy a set of bookshelf mordant shorts?

http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=YAMA-RXV361
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Kamakazie! said:
They are Mordaunt-Short speaker... i presume he means the 905i? Although that is just a centre.

I have the compact 302s with a 304c as centre and i am happy with the sound (connected to a Cambridge Audio 540R).
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:o

Making up model numbers is my new hobby....I meant the 902i of course :)
 
The amp will definalty be an upgrade over the amps built into PC speakers, so even though in the world of AV that amp is cheap as chips.. its still a big stepup from a PC Speaker setup :).

If you have a chance, go down to a hifi shop with a demo room (Richer should be good enough) and try out a few different brands of speakers. Speakers make quite a dramatic difference to the sound, and you'll be able to tune the sound a fair degree by your selection.

Some speaker's come as 5.1 AV packages, but its also possible to buy into a speaker "family", for example I have Mission 753 Floorstanding fronts, Mission 750 bookshelf rears, and a Mission 75C centre speaker. They are all from the Mission 75 family and are designed to have well balanced sound when used in an AV system. I started out with just the 753's as a 2 channel "Stereo" system, and added the other speakers later. This would let you buy a higher priced speaker system as you can buy some now, and then save up for 'more speakers' later.

If you do go down the route of buying stereo speakers first, and then upgrading later, do make sure that the model range includes a centre speaker so when you do upgrade, you get a matching soundstage.
 
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Corasik said:
The amp will definalty be an upgrade over the amps built into PC speakers, so even though in the world of AV that amp is cheap as chips.. its still a big stepup from a PC Speaker setup :).

If you have a chance, go down to a hifi shop with a demo room (Richer should be good enough) and try out a few different brands of speakers. Speakers make quite a dramatic difference to the sound, and you'll be able to tune the sound a fair degree by your selection.

Some speaker's come as 5.1 AV packages, but its also possible to buy into a speaker "family", for example I have Mission 753 Floorstanding fronts, Mission 750 bookshelf rears, and a Mission 75C centre speaker. They are all from the Mission 75 family and are designed to have well balanced sound when used in an AV system. I started out with just the 753's as a 2 channel "Stereo" system, and added the other speakers later. This would let you buy a higher priced speaker system as you can buy some now, and then save up for 'more speakers' later.

If you do go down the route of buying stereo speakers first, and then upgrading later, do make sure that the model range includes a centre speaker so when you do upgrade, you get a matching soundstage.
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Good advice. Like it.
 
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