5.1 Surround Sound Set up

markwilliams82 · 4 Oct 2010 at 22:43

Hi all, I'm looking for a 5.1 speaker set up for my new living room / home cinema set up in our cellar conversion.

I used to own the logitech z-5500 but I sold these to help fund the conversion.

I've been looking at the Onkyo HT-S5305B 3D Ready 5.1 AV Receiver and Speaker Package.
how do these rate?

I've got a budget of approx £300

MissChief · 4 Oct 2010 at 23:21

The Onkyo setup is pretty good for the cash. you get a separate amplifier which can be upgraded in the future if you wish as well as proper speakers so you can change them without needing a new Amp. You'd also be hard pressed to get the same feature set in a separate combo.

Turbo-G · 5 Oct 2010 at 00:35

What's the difference between the HT-S5305B and the HT-S3305B?

I was looking at the latter recently: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18184622

krisab · 5 Oct 2010 at 01:56

sorry to hijack the thread, but what exactly makes a set of speakers 3D ready? (sorry if its a noobish question)

bitslice · 5 Oct 2010 at 05:32

krisab said:
sorry to hijack the thread, but what exactly makes a set of speakers 3D ready? (sorry if its a noobish question)

it is referring to the receiver, its v1.4 HDMI output makes it compatible with 3D blurays

there is no such thing as 3D speakers

markwilliams82 · 6 Oct 2010 at 16:26

whats the difference between the Onkyo HT-S3305 and S5305?

I can't see much on initial impressions but thee 3305 is £30 cheaper

milkinc13 · 8 Oct 2010 at 19:24

bitslice said:
it is referring to the receiver, its v1.4 HDMI output makes it compatible with 3D blurays

there is no such thing as 3D speakers

all speakers are 3D, if not they'd be flat

but no there is no such thing as 3D sound

lucid · 10 Oct 2010 at 21:42

Turbo-G said:
What's the difference between the HT-S5305B and the HT-S3305B?

The 5305 has a proper sub-woofer output on a coax connector. The sub for the kit is mains powered.

The 3305 has a passive sub which is driven like an ordinary speaker. AFAIK there's no subwoofer pre-out on a coax connector; only a speaker connection. It limits some of the upgrade options a little. The 3305 sub can't be used with any other AV amp for example, and if you wanted to upgrade the speakers for the 3305 kit you'd have to buy a sub with a speaker-level input.

The 5305 doesn't have these limitations. The speakers can be used with any other proper AV amp, so they'd have more value second hand.

TheVoice · 11 Oct 2010 at 00:45

I've got the 3305, brilliant bit of kit. So, so much better than the Samsung system I had before it. Highly recommended.