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[Markie]

Okay wife has had her way for some time now buying expensive furniture and the likes..

Now its my turn..ive marked a 46" 1080p Samsung tv for purchase  

I was looking at some DVD surround systems to go with it and there seems to be a massive price difference...from up to £200 (Sony) and the over £500 stuff ( harmon Kardon, Denon, Kef etc)

Has anyone invested in an expensive surround system and is there a noticable difference.....?

Also about 4 months ago i saw a cool looking sound system with a Hard Drive - i think.....it let you listen to music in every room without hard wiring....wasnt cheap  :-/ and i cant remember what it was....again anyone know what i am referring to and if there a good purchase? ?

 

[Markie]

ive just found an example of the wireless sound system....

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=394351

Any thought from users?

[miggy]

I bought a samsung system 2 years ago for £250, a mate of mine purchased a system and paid about £600 for it.
His sounds no different to mine, in fact I would say the quality of the sound is better on mine.
I have always found Samsung to be top quality and sold a good prices. What really finished my system off was the 32 Inch LCD TV i got at Xmass (Samsung)

IMHO

 

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Markie
I have Harmon Kardon speaker hooked up to the computer.

£140 they cost the sound is amazing.

I play loads of music through the computer with a choice of 3000 albums and every one sounds great.

Hook the computer up to a good amp with some good speakers you cant go wrong..

[Paul M]

My old man's car has the Harmon Kardon "hi-fi" upgrade fitted, and it sounds.... OK. Not really what I'd expect for a £1000 or whatever it cost upgrade, I could get a better sound with half that.

But, that's a car so you can pretty much ignore any relevance it may or may not have

[MikeDundee]

I have Sony surround sounds system (second one), the one that has the DVD player and video player built in, was around £250 a couple of years ago, not sure if you still get them, sound is good though. To be honest there is not a lot of major Differrence when it comes the the sound quality between the systems available, just by a decent one that does what you want it to do

[STMO123]

A lot depends on positioning of the speakers and the acoustics of the room.

[MikeDundee]

A lot depends on positioning of the speakers and the acoustics of the room.

Agreed , I have mine strategically positioned to achieve maximum acoustics, good with war movies and that with the sound effects

[Admin]

Hmmm I await the comments from Mark, Martin and (if he is still alive!) Max...  

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[STMO123]

Shouldn't that be:-

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He's in a funny mood this morning :-/

[Martin_1962]

You get what you pay for, a decent DVD player starts around £50, the high def players are well worth a look with say the PS3.

Amps budget around £100 to something good for around £500.

Speakers you need 5 and possibly a sub woofer.

Reckon on spending as much as possible.

Player - consider the PS3 or a mid range Pioneer

AV Amp - Sony, Pioneer, Yamaha, Denon

Speakers - depends entirely on budget, but mine cost around £800 in sales

[Markie]

You get what you pay for, a decent DVD player starts around £50, the high def players are well worth a look with say the PS3.

Amps budget around £100 to something good for around £500.

Speakers you need 5 and possibly a sub woofer.

Reckon on spending as much as possible.

Player - consider the PS3 or a mid range Pioneer

AV Amp - Sony, Pioneer, Yamaha, Denon

Speakers - depends entirely on budget, but mine cost around £800 in sales

so its better to buy seperates...than a package that gives the surrounds speakers and woofer/speakers?

[Martin_1962]

You get what you pay for, a decent DVD player starts around £50, the high def players are well worth a look with say the PS3.

Amps budget around £100 to something good for around £500.

Speakers you need 5 and possibly a sub woofer.

Reckon on spending as much as possible.

Player - consider the PS3 or a mid range Pioneer

AV Amp - Sony, Pioneer, Yamaha, Denon

Speakers - depends entirely on budget, but mine cost around £800 in sales

so its better to buy seperates...than a package that gives the surrounds speakers and woofer/speakers?

Definately - you get better VFM as well

[Admin]

You see I would disagree...

I used to own the Videologic Digitheatre DTS system...

Absolutely bl**dy awesome piece of kit with full 5.1 DTS sound.  
Cost me £200 2nd hand (he bought it but never took it out the box!)

Everyone was very impressed with the sound produece (except my neighbours!)

If you can find one, well worth getting.
Check out the reviews: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=digitheatre+DTS+reviews&meta=