Advice needed please

[silvertain78]

Hi!

So I need help I am looking to get a home cinema for my living room at the moment i have a sony bdv 7100. My missus wants me to go with option one - bose 535 lifestyle which is 2k at our factory shop locally. However I asked someone in richersounds who reckons i should go with a Q acoustics 7000i 5.1 speaker setup with a Denon avrx2200 this would cost me around 1k.

Which would be better? I know people hate Bose the system sounded pretty awesome to me and i want small speakers which is why both appeal.

Thanks

Shane

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Most people around here shun "lifestyle" systems and home-theatre-in-one-box solutions because there not upgradeable or that flexible.
If such a system meets your requirements, however, go for it.
Just make sure it's HDCP 2.2, HDMI 2.0a and HDR compatible, so it's reasonably future proof.

 

[Leeps]

Benedict makes a good point about upgradeability and future-proofing. Many lifestyle all-in-one systems have unusual proprietary speaker cable fixings, so if the main unit becomes out-dated by a new standard, then you have to throw the speakers as well, which seems very wasteful.

Speakers don't really go out of date, so any money spent on them will return you enjoyment for many years to come (unless you get the upgrade bug).

So a separates system enables you to upgrade or change the parts you need to, but preserve the components that are perfectly useable, which means that when you do come to change a component, it's far less costly than buying a completely new all-in-one system.

 

[silvertain78]

Thank you for taking the time to reply, I think going down the seperate component route will be the best way to go. Can I ask the Denon AVR is that a good starting point I have the budget for better but I dont want to get in the trap of spending a fortune then getting th eurge to "upgrade" :]

 

[The_Lhc]

Thank you for taking the time to reply, I think going down the seperate component route will be the best way to go. Can I ask the Denon AVR is that a good starting point I have the budget for better but I dont want to get in the trap of spending a fortune then getting th eurge to "upgrade" :]

That's more likely to happen if you try to do things on the cheap I'd have thought, although if you buy the right stuff you can get excellent results. You can spend a fortune and still feel the need to upgrade if you get ill-matching components.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Two words for Leeps:

Soldering Iron

;-)