First 5.1 setup

[giggsy1977]

Good evening ladies and gents. Hope you all had a nice bank holiday!
I am looking to enter the world of surround sound in the next couple of months (house move) and wanted some advice. I will be listening to some of the packages I have looked at as I know I should, but probably not all of them and was hoping you kind people could fill in the gaps for me. My room is 5m x 3.5m and I have looked at the QAcoustics 1010i 5.1 system (£449.00), the Quad Lite 5.1 system (about £465 is memory serves), Canton 150 (£445.00) and have also had some Klipsch speakers mentioned to me. Amp will be an Onkyo 506 or 606 depending how much I save in the next 8 weeks!
Not overly bothered about musical ability as have separate system for that.
Do like my bass however, but unsure as to which system provides the best.
I will be able to listen to the qacoustics and the quads judging by shops near me, but perhaps not the others. Anyone care to offer some advice or have any experience of the above packages to share? Thanks in advance peeps!

 

[bullitt]

Hello giggsy, well im no expert at all but today ive just bought onkyo 606 and the tannoy f1 custom package ,i went to creative audio for a demo it sounded great , they did suggest Q accoustics 1010i aswell, also i think the monitor audio bronze works well with onk 606,in this mnths mag it has the group test of all style sp packages all those work well with onkyo 605 so dont see why not with 606 good luck.

 

[bullitt]

BTW the setup i bought was from creative -audio £1098 incl onkyo 606 and £90 cable pkge , the sub is a mj accoustics ref mk2.