I am moving into a new home and need to put in place system from scratch.
The space at my new home is an inverted L shape. The living area will be at the top left, i.e. 3 sides will have walls nearby with the right hand side wall a good 20-25 feet away. (top leg of L is 12 feet deep and 35 feet wide)
What I all ready have -
Not much just a mid-range panasonic projector (720p).
The problem I face -
In my past residence I shared a Sony TV with a pair of panasonic speaker (model unkown, but 5 year old purchase. Speakers barely over 1 feet the pair has to be less than 50L. Brother was a miser, could even be much cheaper
)
I was hoping to enhance my Movie watching experience significantly with a new purchase. The difficulty is I am not sure if a very good quality 2 speakers with a center would be a better choice over a typical Home theatre in a box (sony etc) available in the market.
I want to buy the cheapest system that can give me a spectacular (significant) improvement in experience over existing setup. This is what creates the problem. Would a pair of B&W 683 speakers (2L) with some thing for a center and sub (90K), Onkyo 805 AMP (60k?) (total 3.5L) be better than
a) Bose Life style 48 (2.6L)
b) B&W MT 30 with Onkyo 805 (2L)
c) B&W 685 theatre set with onkyo 806 (2.5L)
options a,b,c are 5.1 surround setups while the 683 is not. Would better front speakers make for superior experience by themselves over a lower quality but surround setup (B&W MT 30?).
While I could blow 3-4L (painfully) I don't have to go spend it. I will go that far only if I cannot find a good enough system at lower price. With this in mind I have been trying to test out the off the shelf Home in Theatre systems.
Would a MT-30 or Bose Lifestyle be significantly better than Sony Muteki STRK 5000 or Onkyo &.1 HT S5100 (both around 40-50k)?
The retail stores where I found them had no A/V room. (Reliance, Jumbo)
A few places with AV rooms (Sony) are very small and bare (glass doors, cement walls,ceilings and floor, no cushioning). It has lead me to wonder if the sound of off the shelf systems would be better than what I heard in stores. These systems have 5 star ratings at various internet reviews (whathifi.com etc)
I am in a fix, would 1.5L more be worth spending getting mt30 or bose etc over sonny?
Do I have other smarter choices?
About me - I have no idea about sound systems. Left home with the expectation of picking a Home theater system from my nearest retail and expected it to blow me away. Found most stores not prepared to give me a 'taste', where I could review the setup was poor or only one-mid range system installed.
Unhappy I am exploring component based setups. With no idea about this stuff, it seems complicated and expensive. I am wondering if I would be better off just picking up a simple 3:1 system and dump the whole exercise. After all why spend even 50k more if the experience wouldn't be a substantial jump over what I have heard so far.
In short, should I spend, if so on what and why.
(pls: I will use it for mainly TV - movies and sport, DVDs, very limited usage for music - Bollywood songs)
The space at my new home is an inverted L shape. The living area will be at the top left, i.e. 3 sides will have walls nearby with the right hand side wall a good 20-25 feet away. (top leg of L is 12 feet deep and 35 feet wide)
What I all ready have -
Not much just a mid-range panasonic projector (720p).
The problem I face -
In my past residence I shared a Sony TV with a pair of panasonic speaker (model unkown, but 5 year old purchase. Speakers barely over 1 feet the pair has to be less than 50L. Brother was a miser, could even be much cheaper
)I was hoping to enhance my Movie watching experience significantly with a new purchase. The difficulty is I am not sure if a very good quality 2 speakers with a center would be a better choice over a typical Home theatre in a box (sony etc) available in the market.
I want to buy the cheapest system that can give me a spectacular (significant) improvement in experience over existing setup. This is what creates the problem. Would a pair of B&W 683 speakers (2L) with some thing for a center and sub (90K), Onkyo 805 AMP (60k?) (total 3.5L) be better than
a) Bose Life style 48 (2.6L)
b) B&W MT 30 with Onkyo 805 (2L)
c) B&W 685 theatre set with onkyo 806 (2.5L)
options a,b,c are 5.1 surround setups while the 683 is not. Would better front speakers make for superior experience by themselves over a lower quality but surround setup (B&W MT 30?).
While I could blow 3-4L (painfully) I don't have to go spend it. I will go that far only if I cannot find a good enough system at lower price. With this in mind I have been trying to test out the off the shelf Home in Theatre systems.
Would a MT-30 or Bose Lifestyle be significantly better than Sony Muteki STRK 5000 or Onkyo &.1 HT S5100 (both around 40-50k)?
The retail stores where I found them had no A/V room. (Reliance, Jumbo)
A few places with AV rooms (Sony) are very small and bare (glass doors, cement walls,ceilings and floor, no cushioning). It has lead me to wonder if the sound of off the shelf systems would be better than what I heard in stores. These systems have 5 star ratings at various internet reviews (whathifi.com etc)
I am in a fix, would 1.5L more be worth spending getting mt30 or bose etc over sonny?
Do I have other smarter choices?
About me - I have no idea about sound systems. Left home with the expectation of picking a Home theater system from my nearest retail and expected it to blow me away. Found most stores not prepared to give me a 'taste', where I could review the setup was poor or only one-mid range system installed.
Unhappy I am exploring component based setups. With no idea about this stuff, it seems complicated and expensive. I am wondering if I would be better off just picking up a simple 3:1 system and dump the whole exercise. After all why spend even 50k more if the experience wouldn't be a substantial jump over what I have heard so far.
In short, should I spend, if so on what and why.
(pls: I will use it for mainly TV - movies and sport, DVDs, very limited usage for music - Bollywood songs)
