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New member Username: Bhushan
Washington,
DC
Post Number: 1
Registered: Jun-04
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| Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 11:02 am: |
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I am an absolute Newbie at this. So please help me out. I am sure many of you have answered these questions over an over again. Here goes one more time.
I have an older setup with a Sony Receiver about 8 yrs old (no Dolby Digital or Dolby Pro-logic) I recently bought a big HDTV and am getting ready to buy a new HT system. Having spent a decent amount on the TV (for which I was in the dog house for a little while) I am now trying to piece together a HT system. I have been keeping a tab on the posting here and am wondering what would you folks recommend. An HTIB such as ONKYO 770 which I hear from you folks is very good OR a system put together.
Also would like to understand what do I give up if I buy a HTIB?
From the Other threads I can see that if I put together a system, then the recommendation for Speakers are:
Athena, Axiom, Infinity Polk and Paradigm and Flaunce
And on the receiver side:
Onkyo, Denon and Yamaha
Can you please recommend which receivers.
BTW the room dimensions are 16’x19’
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Silver Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 929
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 03:28 pm: |
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budget??? Hopefully nothing that will put you backin the dog house
If you go HTIB, you usually give up speaker quality, but less chances of visiting the dog house. |
New member Username: Bhushan
Washington,
DC
Post Number: 2
Registered: Jun-04
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| Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 04:09 pm: |
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Budget is Around $ 600
After looking at some of the other postings, I took a look at the Athena speakers and the Axiom Speakers. I some some did not like the looks of the Atena surround sound (do not know the quality -- any comments on qaulity?)
Also please let me know what sites/places cannot I find these cheap (even refurbished) |
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| Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 06:42 pm: |
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I just purchased a receiver and speakers last weekend. If you buy seperate systems, you'll also need to figure in speaker cable and possibly plugs. Speaker cable can run from $20 for 50 feet (radio shack) to $60 for 50 feet (monster cable). If your receiver and speaker setup require plugs, add another $40 to $60 on top of that.
HTiB often come with enough speaker cable to wire a small room and shouldn't require any fancy plugs.
I just spent $300 on an receiver (Yamaha) and $300 on speakers (Athena). An additional $100 went to extended warranties, and another $100 for speaker cable and plugs. All said, with tax, it came out to about $850. I also originally budgeted $600, but I do feel the extra $250 was well spent and I have no regrets.
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