- Aug 10, 2019
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The time has come to purchase a HT system, with no starting point to speak of in terms of existing equipment, other than a Sky+ HD box and Wii.
I've pretty much settled on the Pioneer LX508, but haven't a clue as to the rest of the setup. The room in entirety is 20' x 20', but the seating/tv area is just over half of that if that makes sense (imagine say a 12'x20' TV room with the TV centered on the 12' side and a 8'x20' office room placed next to it with no dividing wall).
Live in a seemingly well sound insulated apartment block but not looking to make enemies of my neighbours by cranking this thing up super loud very often. After a 5.1 setup primarily for watching TV/movies, quality music performance is desirable but secondary. No multi-room requirement.
Not majorly decided on budget (dangerous I know) - its a case of "will I really notice enough difference if I spent x more at normal listening volumes". If can spend less than £10K and be happy then great - if an extra few thousand would make a significant improvement then I would rather do so now rather than later.
Anyone out there got any suggestions? I live on the East side of London, really struggling to find dealers who have demo facilities who within a few hours could help me nail down some choices. Obviously the main items are:
- some sort of AV amp/processing (combined or separates),
- choice of 5.1 speakers (prefer meaty floorstanders over the "style" kind)
- DVD/CD player (not interested in Blue-Ray/HD-DVD as yet)
- added bonus would be being able to play networked uncompressed CD media to save the changing effort, but not critical at this point.
Suggestions very much appreciated,
Grant.
I've pretty much settled on the Pioneer LX508, but haven't a clue as to the rest of the setup. The room in entirety is 20' x 20', but the seating/tv area is just over half of that if that makes sense (imagine say a 12'x20' TV room with the TV centered on the 12' side and a 8'x20' office room placed next to it with no dividing wall).
Live in a seemingly well sound insulated apartment block but not looking to make enemies of my neighbours by cranking this thing up super loud very often. After a 5.1 setup primarily for watching TV/movies, quality music performance is desirable but secondary. No multi-room requirement.
Not majorly decided on budget (dangerous I know) - its a case of "will I really notice enough difference if I spent x more at normal listening volumes". If can spend less than £10K and be happy then great - if an extra few thousand would make a significant improvement then I would rather do so now rather than later.
Anyone out there got any suggestions? I live on the East side of London, really struggling to find dealers who have demo facilities who within a few hours could help me nail down some choices. Obviously the main items are:
- some sort of AV amp/processing (combined or separates),
- choice of 5.1 speakers (prefer meaty floorstanders over the "style" kind)
- DVD/CD player (not interested in Blue-Ray/HD-DVD as yet)
- added bonus would be being able to play networked uncompressed CD media to save the changing effort, but not critical at this point.
Suggestions very much appreciated,
Grant.