what to look for in speakers?

As I said I'm not paying full price in fact it costs me 350, im looking for something to plug in and go. A few years use out of them will be fine. An amp wouldnt break that easily would it
 
Resa69 said:
As I said I'm not paying full price in fact it costs me 350, im looking for something to plug in and go. A few years use out of them will be fine. An amp wouldnt break that easily would it
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sound quality won't be that great.

they are good if all you want is a loud hi-fi.

if you want something which has better sound quality, a lot clearer and will last longer and can be upgraded or sold on very easily without much loss then buy separates.

everyone in this thread is telling you not to buy it and buy seperates but you seem to be very single minded in that regard that is the best hi-fi because it looks "techno" and "bad-***". the truth is you could spend your money a whole lot better everyone on here has told you it's a bad idea, but you seem to have your heart set on buying that specific monstrosity.

it's like all the morons who drive about with HUGE subs in a vauxhall corsa, yeah you have boomin bass but it sounds terrible, drowns out the mids and you cannot appreciate the song as it was intended to be heard plus no matter what you do a corsa is still a corsa you look like a ****.

£350 will get you tannoy DC4 (£200) and a £150 amp you can plug your source into (phone, etc) you can upgrade it whenever you want, sell it on easily (without a huge loss) and if the amp dies you can simply buy a different one.

anyway you seem to be set on the sony, enjoy.
 
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Resa69 said:
As I said I'm not paying full price in fact it costs me 350, I'm looking for something to plug in and go. A few years use out of them will be fine. An amp wouldn't break that easily would it
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Amps don't tend to break unless abused or poorly manufactured. One of mine is nearly 40 years old and only needed some basic maintenance work last year. (was still working but it's performance was not up to scratch) Same story for most of my hifi as it almost all dates back to the 70's and 80's. Buy cheap crap and end up buying twice, look after it and it'll last.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
sound quality won't be that great.

they are good if all you want is a loud hi-fi.

if you want something which has better sound quality, a lot clearer and will last longer and can be upgraded or sold on very easily without much loss then buy separates.

everyone in this thread is telling you not to buy it and buy seperates but you seem to be very single minded in that regard that is the best hi-fi because it looks "techno" and "bad-***". the truth is you could spend your money a whole lot better everyone on here has told you it's a bad idea, but you seem to have your heart set on buying that specific monstrosity.

it's like all the morons who drive about with HUGE subs in a vauxhall corsa, yeah you have boomin bass but it sounds terrible, drowns out the mids and you cannot appreciate the song as it was intended to be heard plus no matter what you do a corsa is still a corsa you look like a ****.

£350 will get you tannoy DC4 (£200) and a £150 amp you can plug your source into (phone, etc) you can upgrade it whenever you want, sell it on easily (without a huge loss) and if the amp dies you can simply buy a different one.

anyway you seem to be set on the sony, enjoy.
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I really like the look of the sony and how easy it is to use it, in 2 years time I will upgrade to proper quality stuff. Sony is the Nissan micra of speakers but it will do for now. I will need to do some more research on what an amplifier is etc because I don't even know what the purpose of it is lol.

Kei said:
Amps don't tend to break unless abused or poorly manufactured. One of mine is nearly 40 years old and only needed some basic maintenance work last year. (was still working but it's performance was not up to scratch) Same story for most of my hifi as it almost all dates back to the 70's and 80's. Buy cheap crap and end up buying twice, look after it and it'll last.
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By abused what do you mean? Playing music on the loudest all day I'm guessing?

What did you use to maintain it?

I remember about 8 years ago my dad had a massive set of sony silver ones that only accepted cd's. Up to this day it is still running fine but that was back when sony didn't take shortcuts.
 
But why spend that money on the Sony as a stepping stone when you can spend the same money (or thereabouts) on superior equipment in the first place? Seems like a massive waste of time and money getting that colourful Sony just because it's easy to use but ultimately sounds inferior to what people have been recommending above?

Make the wise choice, not the unwise one :p
 
Resa69 said:
By abused what do you mean? Playing music on the loudest all day I'm guessing?

What did you use to maintain it?

I remember about 8 years ago my dad had a massive set of sony silver ones that only accepted cd's. Up to this day it is still running fine but that was back when sony didn't take shortcuts.
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By abuse I mean running very low impedance speakers at high levels (sub 4 ohms, as this causes excess current to be drawn which usually causes the transistors to exceed their rated amounts and overheat/blow), blocking the ventilation by storing it in tight/enclosed spaces and doing really stupid things like shorting the outputs.

Maintenance was literally replacing the capacitors that have a wet electrolyte that dries up as they age, nothing else was wrong so it's not worth going beyond that.

I would agree with the sentiments of the others though, sony may well make some good av receivers but they are not so hot in the hifi department. (plus one manufacturer doesn't make the best of everything) Some half decent tannoy, wharfedale, monitor audio, kef or B&W speakers will really shine with a decent amp like that Yamaha AS500.
 
Seperates are about the same difficulty to setup eg. plug in the amplifier, wire up the speakers...

But you seem to be set on the Sony and for £350 with an RRP of £700 it is not bad but I would not buy it, looks tacky to me. I would buy seperates. Get a sub like the BK Monolith instead if you want massive bass. I would like to get a sub but even my B&W 602s3 are too bassy for my flat due to neighbours :(
 
mrk said:
Have you ever connected up a gaming console to a TV?
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Yes via hdmi and that was very difficult ;)

NirK said:
Seperates are about the same difficulty to setup eg. plug in the amplifier, wire up the speakers...

But you seem to be set on the Sony and for £350 with an RRP of £700 it is not bad but I would not buy it, looks tacky to me. I would buy seperates. Get a sub like the BK Monolith instead if you want massive bass. I would like to get a sub but even my B&W 602s3 are too bassy for my flat due to neighbours :(
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To be honest im not set on it anymore, in fact you have put me off them ;)

How much is that sub you just mentioned?
 
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