5.1 system for living room needed

Mr Paul

Mr Paul

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I'd be looking around £250 ish, black, digital input will be needed from PS3 and SKY+HD.

Wireless rear speakers would be a plus. Oh I have a Panasonic Plasma.

What's out there guys?
 
I went for the following:

Monitor Audio 7.1 setup

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Onkyo 706 Amp
Panasonic Blu Ray Player
Xbox 360
Xbox (With XMBC)

Soon to be adding a Panasonic G20 42"

Borich
 
[ASSE]Hinchy;16163890 said:
Willy waving.
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Thats not willy waving.............. this is willy waving:p

Front 2x B&W 683 floor standers "cherry"

Rear 2x B&W 684 floor standers "cherry"

B&W HTM61 center speaker "cherry"

B.K. Monolith subwoofer "cherry"

Ps3 80gb

Sky plus HD

Onkyo TX-NR906 "Black

Pioneer PDPLX6090 "wall mounted"

Sony BDP-760

About 10k at the time of purchase.
 
Jamo 5.1 package seems to be very well received for the price, im debating myself whether or not just to get them or save some extra cash for the q acoustics 2000 package
 
Hmm what about :-

ONKYO SKSHT528 Black 5.1 Speaker Package - £170
SONY STRDH500 Black AV Receiver With HDMI Interface - £140

SLightly over at £310 ;), but would that give me a better setup?
 
^TANK^ said:
Thats not willy waving.............. this is willy waving:p

Front 2x B&W 683 floor standers "cherry"

Rear 2x B&W 684 floor standers "cherry"

B&W HTM61 center speaker "cherry"

B.K. Monolith subwoofer "cherry"

Ps3 80gb

Sky plus HD

Onkyo TX-NR906 "Black

Pioneer PDPLX6090 "wall mounted"

Sony BDP-760

About 10k at the time of purchase.
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That is not willy waving, a mate at work spent £8k on his av amp alone iirc. He has problems though, and won't listen to MP3 or radio.

Don't know more than that, but I can find out :p
 
Mr Paul said:
Come on help a guy out ;)
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That'd be a better system. DON'T get an all-in-one, as everything ends up proprietary and needs binning at some point. The DH500 doesn't carry HDMI audio, which I see as important now tbh. It doesn't do HD audio either, but those are less important.

Personally, I'd get a better receiver (STRDH800 if you like sony stuff, but I'd push for something from Denon (1610 maybe) or Onkyo (SR507)) and a add a good front pair of speakers, then add to this as and when. Even this with £19.99 Richersounds Eltax centre and rear speakers would be far better than a poor quality receiver. Bear in mind that the source and amplification is more important than speakers.

Those receivers were just picked from RS at around 200-250 and based on features. Check out AVForums for user opinions, which is best etc and maybe arrange for a demo (though tbh I don't think RS will give a demo on such low price kit - maybe try an independant).

Hope this helps.
 
Biohazard said:
That is not willy waving, a mate at work spent £8k on his av amp alone iirc. He has problems though, and won't listen to MP3 or radio.

Don't know more than that, but I can find out :p
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MP3 isnt the best codec in the world, though to be fair, its more the encoding than the decoding phase, I've tried quite a few MP3 encoders, and they all seem to glitch in some situations. Im not against compressed audio outright, infact I feel that 640kbps AC3 and 1536kbps DTS audio (5.1 & 7.1) sound condsiderably better than 320kbps MP3 stereo in the vast majority of cases. I never listen to MP3 at home, but its ok for the car :)

8k for an AV Processor + a Rack of poweramps isnt too hard to imagine :P, If thats 8k just for a Processor without any amps... thats pretty high end stuff :)
 
Mr Paul said:
Hmm what about :-

ONKYO SKSHT528 Black 5.1 Speaker Package - £170
SONY STRDH500 Black AV Receiver With HDMI Interface - £140

SLightly over at £310 ;), but would that give me a better setup?
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On the whole a speaker package + AV Amp/Receiver will give a much better sound quality than an all in one package. Also all in one packages are very very hard to upgrade in the future, while with a Speaker + Receiver combo, you can upgrade much more easily.

I went about my system from a different approach though. I started with the best front left/right speakers that I could afford, and drove them with a stereo amp (which I already owned), and then when I wanted to go surround I replaced the amp, and added back speakers, and then later again added a centre speaker. But I've always been interested in the stereo/music quality from my system, the 5.1 surround is just a bonus when watching movies ;)
 
jellybeard999 said:
That'd be a better system. DON'T get an all-in-one, as everything ends up proprietary and needs binning at some point. The DH500 doesn't carry HDMI audio, which I see as important now tbh. It doesn't do HD audio either, but those are less important.

Personally, I'd get a better receiver (STRDH800 if you like sony stuff, but I'd push for something from Denon (1610 maybe) or Onkyo (SR507)) and a add a good front pair of speakers, then add to this as and when. Even this with £19.99 Richersounds Eltax centre and rear speakers would be far better than a poor quality receiver. Bear in mind that the source and amplification is more important than speakers.

Those receivers were just picked from RS at around 200-250 and based on features. Check out AVForums for user opinions, which is best etc and maybe arrange for a demo (though tbh I don't think RS will give a demo on such low price kit - maybe try an independant).

Hope this helps.
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What about the ONKYO TXSR307?
 
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