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Thread: Budget Speaker System Advice |
    
New member Username: Whiterat
Post Number: 1
Registered: Jan-05
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| Posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 07:23 pm: |
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Here's the situation:
I've got a 13'x15' room (longer East-to-West), heavy velvet curtaining on the East and West walls, typical apartment carpet, upstairs in a wood-frame house so I have to watch my floor reverb. Screen is against the West wall in front of the curtains, couch for viewing/listening is positioned with a 3' path behind it leading into a corridor out of the room. I am not an audiophile and often don't notice distinctions in speakers that audiophiles do.
Current equipment:
NEC HT1000 Projector
Yamaha HTR 5760 AV Receiver
PC I'm working on configuring as an AVPC
no-name DVD-player
no-name big cabinet speakers about to be garbage
no-name satellite speakers about to be garbage
I have a little under $1K to spend on speakers.
I have a preference for small satellites.
I'd like to be 6.1 compatible at least and 7.1 if possible.
I'd be buying some kind of Bose Acoustimass if I weren't convinced by so many that they're junk, and most specifically that they have a flat spot right in the range of most lower male vocalists (I listen to a fair amount of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits).
Under $1K there are a variety of possible systems that'd fit this bill. I recognize that many of you pay a great deal more for a single speaker than this.
Should I be looking at one of the many 'Home Theater Speaker Package' deals? Should I be buying individual lower-end speakers? I would greatly appreciate your advice. |
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gavincumm Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 10:02 pm: |
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Take a look at any paradigm system in your price range...they are all great! go to www.paradigm.com and locate a dealer near you.
I myself have paradigm speakers in my living room, and they are absolutely incredible for the price.
gavin |
SimpleLife Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2005 - 01:32 am: |
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Check out www.orbaudio.com. They are the cream of the crop in satellites, in my mind. |
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