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Hi there,I live in a small studio apartment and would like a taste of home theatre, I have a large audio rig (Rogue and Sound Dynamics) but really would like a little surround sound, Ideally I would like the cheapest, but OK quality, receiver and a set of smallish 5.1 speakers. I browsed around at soundcity,com but I am really clueless as to what is good with this type of equipment. Any help or recommendations would be great.
-Thanks and best regards,
Rich S.
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This package consists of: a one-box DVD Player/Receiver; a passive sub-woofer and 5 extruded aluminum speakers.The speakers are 2-way, 3-driver designs comprising a 1" tweeter and 2 x 2.5" "yappers" (to call them "woofers" would be a gross exaggeration...) mounted in a cabinet consisting of a robust extruded aluminum section with two wood-grained fibre end-caps.
One of these is equipped for horizontal mounting as a centre channel.
The passive sub uses an 8" driver in a reflex cabinet - it is not particularly "seismic", but does the job.
The "head-unit" is a slim-line design (17" x 14" x 2.5") and features a single-disk transport, an RDS FM Tuner, and 6 x 100watt amplification channels. It supports MP3, WMA as well as DVD Video. It DOES NOT support either DVD-A or SACD (it was not intended as a multi-player).
It is also capable of de-interlacing to provide Progressive Scan feed from either PAL or NTSC media. Video outputs include Composite, S-Video and Component Video.
It can also be reconfigured to support 6.1 using an optional upgrade package which replaces the passive sub with an active sub and adds one more satellite speaker.
I've bought one and am very happy with what it does in the context of a separate, small-room AV set-up.
I don't know what the US list price would be, but the UK RRSP is GBP500, so should be around $800-$1,000.
I checked the Denon USA site, but they don't seem to show the 500, so check out the UK site in the link below.
Give it a audition/vidition (?)
DevillEars
I would suggest you do some reading...just to be more knowledgable.I would suggest either a used 5.1 receiver or processor. Avoid 6 or 7.1, in a small room, you don't need it in my view. Get yourself a sound pressure meter...it will help in setup. You can also pick up lots of used speakers on ebay or at your local stereo store. Make sure that they are similar (rears don't have to be the same, just similar).
You could probably set the whole thing up for around $500 or so.
The Pannasonic XR-50 that I picked up does a great job for home theater on a budget. It's a D-class amp for around $300. Great sound and power for the price IMHO.
Both offer very good value of the money.
...pick up some used speakers, receivers, amps. Get a new DVD with analog audio out.
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