Best Home Theater System to buy on reasonalbe price?

Question

Please suggest a good home theater system with excellent and very clear sound quality on a reasonable price for a medium sized room. Now there are lots in market for low prices but I have no idea which brand or specifications to look for. Input requested from owners experiences.

Answer 1

A really good system starts with separate components. Systems have really come down in price for all that you can do with them. For a starter system I recommend the following.
Always use good interconnects and a power protection system.

Answer 2

Don't buy either. Bose home theater systems are a joke. That's not to say the sound is completely awful, but they charge about four times what they're worth. With Bose you're paying for advertising and an image based on a house of cards, not an audio system. Any player-based HTIB is also nearly worthless. Get a proper receiver or an HTIB based around a receiver (i.e. Onkyo HT-S6200) and a free-standing DVD/Blu-ray player so you have enough connections and options for customization.

Answer 3

It's a bit hard to suggest one without a price range but i will give it a go.If you buy a complete unit from one manufacture (known as a theater in a box) you can sometimes get a discounted price .If not they are usually reasonable in price.
The only thing is there are compromises in the equipment and individual components are hard to replace

The best thing to do is buy the individual components from various manufacturers which are better in build quality and performance.

That is exactly how i have put my audio/video together.

I'm glad you want good sound quality.It is very important.

NAD's MUSIC FIRST philosophy ensures you will get the best sound from their equipment

NAD make very good equipment at reasonable prices.
I can recommend the T 763 A/V Receiver.
Any of their DVD players .

The choice of loudspeakers is always difficult due to them all sounding different
Although i have not heard them recently a lot of audiophiles recommend Klipsch speakers.

Some of the British speakers are very clear and uncolored

I don't what viewing apparatus you are going yo use so i will have to leave now. Hope this has been of some help

Cheers,Rob.


Have a look at the following links :



http://nadelectronics.com/index

http://www.shopping.com/xGS-klipsch_speakers~r-1~CLT-INTR~RFR-www.google.com


http://nadelectronics.com/products/dvd-players.



http://www.wharfedale.co.uk/speakers.php?PHPSESSID=d6b09600e30f6d145a862e800cf6ca48

Answer 4

Reasonable price is a highly subjective standard. Is it reasonable to spend $90 on a Radio Shack (Sony) sub woofer that is a piece of junk? Is it reasonable to spend $1000 on an SVS sub to go with your $10,000 wide screen HD TV? Is it reasonable to spend $3500 on a Genelac sub? The answer is it depends.

My suggestion to you is to go out and audition as many different set-ups as you can in your price range. Before long you will build up a working knowledge of what is available in your price range and how good it sounds.

Also make use of the many free forums and e-zines available on the web. Do your research and don't depend on someone else's opinion of what is right for you.

Answer 5

Your best bet for quality on the cheap is putting a system together yourself, using sale/close-out/refurbished (but warrantied) components.

Here is an example of a 6.1 channel home theater system that will absolutely destroy the cheaply built yet equally priced Onkyo's, Panasonics, etc.

$150 - Purchase 3 pairs of these for the 6 channels.
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4965491?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

$160 - This is a great receiver for the money.
http://www.accessories4less.com/cgi-bin/item/ONKTXSR504B

$148 - A cheap 12" subwoofer. The sub is the .1 in the 6.1.
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=300-635

So that's about as cheap as you can get for a decent setup, $500.

If you want to spend about $1,000, check this out:
http://www.av123.com/products_product.php?section=speakers&product=92.1

Real wood veneers, and great audio sound, just add the Onkyo receiver from above.

If you want to spend more than $1000, choices start to multiply very quickly.

At about $2,000, a 5 channel set of lightly used Paradigm Reference Studio's can be had. But pair them with an SVS or HSU subwoofer.You'd also want to spend about $500+ on a receiver or even more on seperates (processor and power amp- instead of just a receiver).

Don't be afraid to buy used, high-end equipment. As long as the seller has great feedback and you pay with a credit card, it's pretty safe.

Check audiogon.com for used hi-fi.


Here's a few diagrams of home theater setups
5.1 channel
http://www.dolby.com/images/consumer/home_entertainment/room_d1.gif
6.1 channel
http://webopedia.internet.com/img/Surround_61.jpg
7.1 channel
http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/129025.jpg

Whatever you do, don't buy a crappy Onkyo/Panasonic theater in a box, they're garbage. These companies are not known for making speakers = they're about the lowest quality you can buy. Well, actually you can't even buy Onkyo or Panasonic speakers because they're not good enough to sell on their own...What does that tell you about their quality and sound?

Just go for the first ($500) or second system ($1000) I pointed out and you'll have gotten the most for your money.

PS+ Bose is GARBAGE.

Edit: the goober above me stated to use MonsterCable...HUGE waste of money, your paying a 80%+ premium because it says "Monster Cable". All good speaker wire is, is a thick gauge, oxygen free copper wire. Everyone in the know on Home Theater forums buy their cables here:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10239&cs_id=1023901&p_id=2789&seq=1&format=2&style=

Pair that speaker wire with banana plugs:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10401&cs_id=1040115&p_id=2801&seq=1&format=2&style=

Answer 6

get the Onkyo or the Panasonic, both around 600- 700 and sound fine

but again I do not know what kind of price range you are working with, to me this would be the lowest I would go

Answer 7

Give us a budget, and maybe we can go from there.

"Reasonable price" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

Answer 8

Try bose... good at reasonable price.

Answer 9

try onkyo