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Bose is usually overpriced, but if you can find a good deal.......... Listen first, and buy if you like them.
Onkyo makes some spectacular new system-in-a-box setups. Circuit City sells them, as does www.crutchfield.com
I'd say they have one of the better mass-market HTiBs, right now. But you're always better off buying separates. Maybe find a used surround-sound receiver with 50W per channel or more, and start with some bookshelf speakers. Use the proper gauge cable, but don't buy Monster or any of the expensive stuff. Bare-wire connections with 14 or 12-gauge speaker wire works splendidly.
(About $0.30/ft. at a home improvement store.)
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Onkyo makes some spectacular new system-in-a-box setups. Circuit City sells them, as does www.crutchfield.com
I'd say they have one of the better mass-market HTiBs, right now. But you're always better off buying separates. Maybe find a used surround-sound receiver with 50W per channel or more, and start with some bookshelf speakers. Use the proper gauge cable, but don't buy Monster or any of the expensive stuff. Bare-wire connections with 14 or 12-gauge speaker wire works splendidly.
(About $0.30/ft. at a home improvement store.)=S2=
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Originally Posted by Siper2
Bose is usually overpriced, but if you can find a good deal.......... Listen first, and buy if you like them.
Onkyo makes some spectacular new system-in-a-box setups. Circuit City sells them, as does www.crutchfield.com
I'd say they have one of the better mass-market HTiBs, right now. But you're always better off buying separates. Maybe find a used surround-sound receiver with 50W per channel or more, and start with some bookshelf speakers. Use the proper gauge cable, but don't buy Monster or any of the expensive stuff. Bare-wire connections with 14 or 12-gauge speaker wire works splendidly. (About $0.30/ft. at a home improvement store.)
=S2=
Onkyo makes some spectacular new system-in-a-box setups. Circuit City sells them, as does www.crutchfield.com
I'd say they have one of the better mass-market HTiBs, right now. But you're always better off buying separates. Maybe find a used surround-sound receiver with 50W per channel or more, and start with some bookshelf speakers. Use the proper gauge cable, but don't buy Monster or any of the expensive stuff. Bare-wire connections with 14 or 12-gauge speaker wire works splendidly.
(About $0.30/ft. at a home improvement store.)=S2=
I'd vouch for the Onkyo one as well. Asiandoood got one last x-mas. He likey.
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Those systems in a box are shit.
If you're not gonna spend a ton of money on surround sound, better to get a high quality receiver and pair of front speakers. If you plan to upgrade to surround at a later time, then get a surround receiver now but only hook up the front speakers.
Shitty sound coming from all around you is not as good as decent sound coming from just in front of you.
If you're not gonna spend a ton of money on surround sound, better to get a high quality receiver and pair of front speakers. If you plan to upgrade to surround at a later time, then get a surround receiver now but only hook up the front speakers.
Shitty sound coming from all around you is not as good as decent sound coming from just in front of you.
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Going with what I said earlier, check out a pair of B&W DM303 speakers. They run about 300 bucks and when put on a set of proper stands sound quite excellent. Hook em up to a decent receiver of your choosing and you can definitely stay within your budget.
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Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
Those systems in a box are shit.
If you're not gonna spend a ton of money on surround sound, better to get a high quality receiver and pair of front speakers. If you plan to upgrade to surround at a later time, then get a surround receiver now but only hook up the front speakers.
Shitty sound coming from all around you is not as good as decent sound coming from just in front of you.
If you're not gonna spend a ton of money on surround sound, better to get a high quality receiver and pair of front speakers. If you plan to upgrade to surround at a later time, then get a surround receiver now but only hook up the front speakers.
Shitty sound coming from all around you is not as good as decent sound coming from just in front of you.
On a budge they are great. which one did you try?
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All of them have wimpy little drivers in crappy enclosures. That Onkyo thing is 500 bucks for six speakers, a sub and a receiver, and you're not getting much quality at all. Those B&W speakers I talked about are real quality stuff and I for one would rather have good sound coming from in front of me than be surrounded by crap. Surround sound is overrated. If you're on a budget it's better, in my opinion, to buy only the channels you can afford to get quality stuff for, and then upgrade later if you want the surround sound. I have some Infinity Reference speakers (the current Infinity speakers, meh, not so nice, but the old ones with silk tweeters are the money) on nice solid stands and a mid level Sony receiver and am way happier than if I had one of those crappy in-a-box dealies.