Spec me an audio set up

[jamesy505]

I've just purchased a LG OLED G3 77 inch TV and looking to get a decent sound set up. I'm pretty much a newbie on audio, so not entirely sure what the best setup would be.

The room my TV will be in is L shaped, but for the purposes of the positioning of the TV, the main part is 410cm depth and 340cm wide.

I'm looking for some help as to what audio equipment I should look to buy, which will complement my new TV.

My budget is around £750

Any recommendations would be appreciated

 

[jamesy505]

You'll need a avr and at least stereo speakers and a subwoofer.


That's not a high budget so I'd probably go for stereo with avr, and leave center, sub and surrounds until you save up the remaining. All depends if you want a final good system so prepared to buy in stages of if a cheaper 5.1 is ok enough. IE if you expect bass. That shakes your house in £700 avr/7.1.4 system that's not gonna happen .

Also do you want 5.1 7.1 7.1.4 , down the line , one or two subs etc?

Avrs are pretty expensive now they've doubled price.

If you buy standmounts you'll need speaker stands as well.

For avrs there's Yamaha and Denon.
Speakers got a big choice but in price range q acoustics, wharfedale, Dali, b&w, kef, XTZ

Best if you go to AV store and ask to listen to few speaker brands to get idea of house sound.

Blind buying second hand speakers is one option but risk you'll buy a brand you don't like the sound of.

You could buy wharfedale 9.1 second hand they're cheap enough to try out, use for a bit, if you don't like them reuse them in another system.

Also depends if you want to change and upgrade speakers ie a hobby or just want to plonk a system down and never change bits and upgrade etc. door example I've owned a few speaker brands over the years. This is affordable with budget speakers, as £150 speakers isn't a big outlay , but becomes more difficult as you go higher .

Thanks, that is a lot have a look at

 

[jamesy505]

Also are you gaming? 4k 120hz etc? Need vrr. If yes you'll need a avr that supports hdmi 2.1

If not then you can buy a older hdmi 2.0 avr so save money, or even just second hand and that'll do.

Yes, I'll be gaming 4k 120.

I can probably up my budget to £1k if that made a difference.

I was thinking of a 5.1 setup, due to size of the room and cost of anything more.

 

[jamesy505]

Thanks for the replies. In some ways I'm glad I asked, in other way I'm overwhelmed by the choices

 

[jamesy505]

Not 100% necessary. You can feed the tv 120x4k and eArc / Arc the sound out to avr/soundbar.

Did you get offered a soundbar deal with you telly purchase? There seem to be some deals out there for the matching gx sound bar?

It depends how far down this rabbit hole you want to go?

Didn't get offered a deal, but was browsing the LG website when buying the TV and seen it was being sold with the LG G1 soundbar.

There were also S80QR soundbar and speakers listed