Which Amp and Speakers?

MoNkeE · 29 Mar 2006 at 20:22

Hey all,

Must say, this forum has been the most useful one to me so far!

Right, I'm looking to buy an amp and set of 5.1 sound surround speakers for roughly £250. The amp will have 3 consoles feeding into it - an Xbox 360, Xbox and PS2 - probably expanding to the PS3 when that gets released.

The speakers will be used mainly for gaming, as well as the odd film every now and again. Ideally they'd need to be fairly small/light as I'll be mounting them on a plasterboard wall. However, at a push I can get some tall stands.

The amp will need to be able to set the volume of each speaker, as the speakers aren't going to be aligned (the shape of my room prohibits this - pictures can be supplied if required).

My mate recommened the Logitech Z-5500 THX® Certified 5.1 505 Watts Speakers - Retail (SP-021-LG) available from OcUK for £200, thus leaving £50 for the amp - although I'd love more suggestions.

Cheers guys,

-RaZ

LeperousDust · 29 Mar 2006 at 20:33

I couldnt actually tell you what to get, but i know for a fact your mate is way off!

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Rokusho · 29 Mar 2006 at 20:51

My mate recommened the Logitech Z-5500 THX® Certified 5.1 505 Watts Speakers - Retail (SP-021-LG) available from OcUK for £200, thus leaving £50 for the amp - although I'd love more suggestions.

LOL

Those speakers do come with a hell of a lot of connections with the amp built into the sub

They are an incredible set of speakers if you get them, the only way you could get better sound is to go into a much more costly seperates systems

tom_nieto · 30 Mar 2006 at 00:46

Ignore your friend.

If you can get down to Richer sounds and have a look round, do that. You'll find that you can probably get a reasonable 5.1 hi-fi system for your budget.

By far the best option would be to look for second hand bargains. Even people who spend thousands on their hi-fis buy second hand because, like a car, the previous owner takes the depreciation hit when a newer model comes out. I bought everything except my speakers second hand (even they were end of line and hugely reduced) and got great bargains imo. It takes a little more effort, but is well worth it in the end.

willd58 · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:43

MoNkeE said:
My mate recommened the Logitech Z-5500 THX® Certified 5.1 505 Watts Speakers - Retail (SP-021-LG) available from OcUK for £200, thus leaving £50 for the amp
-RaZ

ROFL - ignore your friend, he doesnt know what hes talking about it seems.
I think the only way your guna be able to get a decent 5.1 for this budget is either by going to ebay, or, getting a bottem of the range 5.1 amp, and a pair of speakers, and add other speakers later when you have more money.

KiNETiK · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:59

Hey,
what about the Denon DHT1356XP. I've been thinking of getting that myself.. I;ve seen that for about £220, has some excellent reviews from what i've seen and for the price it seems like a steal..
heres the details pasted off the shop where its 220

DHT-1356DV consists of AVR-1306 (Amplifier Receiver) & SYS-56HT (5.1 speakers)
Pure Audio Construction
Discrete wide-range 5ch amplifier with 5 x 110 W at 8ohms impedance
Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic ll
DTS, DTS Neo:6 Cinema / Neo:6 Music, DTS 96/24
32-bit floating point DSP, full 96kHz processing, 192 kHz DACs
D/A Converter 24-bit / 192-kHz
Night Mode, 2 optical and 2 coaxial digital imputs, Front A/V imput
4 Audio and Composite Video inputs, 2 Tape loops
Binding post speaker terminals for all channels
56 Preset Memory
SYS-56HT 5.1 Speaker system European sound tuned
Active Subwoofer 50W (peak) Amp

Hesky82 · 31 Mar 2006 at 07:55

KiNETiK said:
Hey,
what about the Denon DHT1356XP. I've been thinking of getting that myself.. I;ve seen that for about £220, has some excellent reviews from what i've seen and for the price it seems like a steal..
heres the details pasted off the shop where its 220

DHT-1356DV consists of AVR-1306 (Amplifier Receiver) & SYS-56HT (5.1 speakers)
Pure Audio Construction
Discrete wide-range 5ch amplifier with 5 x 110 W at 8ohms impedance
Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic ll
DTS, DTS Neo:6 Cinema / Neo:6 Music, DTS 96/24
32-bit floating point DSP, full 96kHz processing, 192 kHz DACs
D/A Converter 24-bit / 192-kHz
Night Mode, 2 optical and 2 coaxial digital imputs, Front A/V imput
4 Audio and Composite Video inputs, 2 Tape loops
Binding post speaker terminals for all channels
56 Preset Memory
SYS-56HT 5.1 Speaker system European sound tuned
Active Subwoofer 50W (peak) Amp

If your buying new that would be your best bet, loads more stylish, much better built. just more hifi than logitech could ever do.
if you dont mind 2nd hand you could grab a what-hifi 5 star av receiver and some pretty good full size 5.1 speaker sets, which would get you even more hifi/ht for your money!
Marantz sr4200 amp is a good bet, new 300bux, 2nd hand they go for as low as 70bux. had one plumbed into my ever expanding home theatre system and it really held up well, is a real musical av amp!

bottom line is dont bother with logitech when it comes to audio, they havent a clue