OT -- Home Theater Help

[naprestsleep]

So I been saving my pennies and with a little help from my tax return I will have enough money to buy a new receiver and speakers. I have narrowed in on a Denon avr-1911 receiver but not so sure on speakers. I spent some time at the Stereo Shop in Henrietta to see the receivers and speakers. They cant price match the receiver so I think I will go through an online authorized dealer and save 33%. For the speakers, , they recommended PSB speakers and a polk sub, which are in my price range but its hard to comparison shop as no one else local sell PSB and they are not sold online. Anyone have experience with PSB speakers or have another recommendation in a $200-$300 range bookshelf speaker and center?

Thanks -- Joe

 

[titoav15]

I have a Bose companion 3 set up that I use for my laptop, I also used it for my TV one time and it was a sweet set up. It comes with 2 speakers and a sub, no receiver. For that set up it pumps sounds very good Are you looking for something that will rattle walls or just some surround sound? I am looking to get Bose 321 in the near future

 

[naprestsleep]

Our living room and kitchen are one open room with cathedral ceilings, so I want some speakers to fill the space for music and offer a 5.1 for movies. I got some older Bose bookshelf speakers now, but plan to use those and my old receiver in another room.

 

[truebeliever71]

If you're an audiophile check out Martin-Logan for speakers. I love mine. Just you won't be able to power them with the Denon.

 

[naprestsleep]

Why cant the denon power them, its been years since I would have considered myself an audiophile, and that was all car audio, which is why I have hearing loss today.

 

[jacksonpt]

PSBs are a great bang for the buck speaker. I've got a pair in my family room for light duty stereo use. IMO, nothing can touch them in sound quality for the dollar.

Will this stuff be used only for home theater, or music too? if only home theater, DCM makes a really nice budget 5.1 sub/sat package. If you can still find them (ebay stores perhaps), the Energy Take 5 system is nice too.

I'm not familiar with that receiver, but if you possibly can, spend the money to get something with HDMIs in. There is a significant and noticable difference in detail in HD audio signals, whether its stereo or DTS HD.

 

[naprestsleep]

Home theater will be the dominate use, as I plan to route my cable receive through it, but we do listen to a lot of music on it too.

The Denon receiver has 4 HDMI ins (1.4a if I ever get a 3D tv)

 

[truebeliever71]

Why cant the denon power them, its been years since I would have considered myself an audiophile, and that was all car audio, which is why I have hearing loss today.

They are an electrostatic hybrid speaker that requires 4ohms and can drop to 2ohms. Most receivers cant handle it.

 

[frofan]

With home theater speakers you truly get what you pay for. I have the performance 2 package from here, and wish I would have spent the extra money on the enthusiast 1 package. A good powered sub will make or break a surround sound system. For the money, you can't beat HSU.

http://www.hsuresearch.com/products/performance1.html