When I found myself in your situation over a yr ago, I bought a Cambridge Soundworks Ensemble HT speaker system, a Technics receiver (tried an Onkyo, but not enough power) and a Sony hi fi vcr. TV is a 27" Sony. I haven't bought a DVD player yet, but if I were buying today, it would be the Sony DVP-NS500v. Speaker cables were from Cambridge and I used whatever old interconnects I had laying around (MIT, Straitwire,etc) plus some Canare video cables from ebay. For background music, I'm using an old Radio Shack CD3400 as a transport with a stock Art DIO dac.
I did upgrade the center channel speaker to a Cambridge Newton model (nice improvement).
My room is about 10 by 12 in a finished basement.
While you won't see my system on the front cover of Sound & Vision, (and it's sound quality won't force me to re-think my higher end systems) I spent well under $1k and enjoy it alot.
I did upgrade the center channel speaker to a Cambridge Newton model (nice improvement).
My room is about 10 by 12 in a finished basement.
While you won't see my system on the front cover of Sound & Vision, (and it's sound quality won't force me to re-think my higher end systems) I spent well under $1k and enjoy it alot.