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Thread: Home Theater Noobie needs advice |
    
New member Username: Youngster
Post Number: 1
Registered: Apr-04
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| Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 03:29 pm: |
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Hi All, I am planning a home theater set-up on a somewhat limited budget of approx. $4,000 to $4,500 for a TV, A/V receiver and speakers to be placed in my den which measures about 15'x18'. The back wall and one side of my den consists of large windows. I'll be using this system to watch tv from a satellite as well as to watch DVDs and listen to CDs. Any help from you pros will be greatly appreciated.
I am currently planning on getting the Sony KV-34XBR910 for video and am thinking of getting the Pioneer Elite VSX-53TX or 55TXi. This will probably leave me about $900 to $1,200 for home theater speakers. Currenly I am thinking of the Cambridge Soundworks MC100.2, MC200.2, MC200 or the Bose Acoustimass AM-10 or AM-15 which seem to fit into this price range. How does this set-up seem to you? Are there better speaker systems which fall into this price range? I won't have room for any speaker package with tower speakers so something compact would be good. |
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Silver Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 421
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 03:55 pm: |
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The Pioneer Elite 55Txi would be an excellent receiver, but I would skip the Bose Acoustimass. I had them before and they performed very poorly (AM-15)...great for video games, my kids seem to like it.
Check out these home theater speakers
http://www.axiomaudio.com/epicmidi.html
one of the better speakers that I tried
cheers
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the duece Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 08:57 pm: |
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Check out Paradigm also, great speakers! |
Silver Member Username: Elitefan1
Post Number: 379
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 08:58 am: |
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Paradigm's are great but not a good match with Elite. For your budget check out Monitor Audio Bronze series. Much better match. |
New member Username: Feot
Houston,
TX
USA
Post Number: 3
Registered: Apr-04
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| Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 03:29 am: |
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Looks like you are satisfied with just 5.1. I am a little late responding but i have a package that would work and sound great. 2 pair of NHT SB1, 1 SC1 center and a SW10, all new, sealed with 5 yr warranty for $1075 + shipping. Check out NHT at http://www.nhthifi.com/2004/
hope this helps... |
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