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Need help! First step into high end audio
Greetings! I have a LG55OLEDC1, first time having a semi fancy TV and am looking to get a fancy audio set up to match.
I am in New York, and looking to have the primary use be movies and gaming, followed closely by music. I’m fine with starting small and adding on bit by bit until it’s all set.
There are so many options and am a bit overwhelmed. Looking to go as close to 2k, mayyybe 3k at the high end.
Any suggestions you can provide would be greatly appreciated. A home theater company suggested bowers 600 series and starting with Left/Right/Center to start.
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Just a point of terminology. You want a good sounding home theater, correct?
Home theater and two channel audio systems typically have very different goals. Good sounding home theater, in general is much easier to achieve since you are distracted by the video. Most of us that are serious about audio separate our audio and home theater systems. You can see my systems under my UserID. Assuming you are interested HT. Then the first step would be get a great sounding surround processor. I would look at NAD and at the $2K range. These guys try and achieve great sound, not just add a lot of buttons and functions you will not use. It will give you great audio with lots of punch. Then look to spend $1K on a set of 5 speakers (you can add more later). You want them all the same brand so they have the same sound. If you want to go even higher level spend the $1K on the front three and put some really cheap one’s in the back. You can upgrade the rears and add others later. KEF speakers as a brand comes to mind.
The center channel is REALY important … it Carrie’s 85% or more of the content. So you want your highest quality up front.
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Do NOT do an overpriced B&W 600 system with only left/right/center. That’s silly. Here’s a complete 5.1 system — including receiver — that’ll wow you for about $3100. Free shipping and a 45-day in-home trial with free shipping back on the speakers if they don’t blow you away. This is great stuff and all on discount except for the center speaker… https://www.svsound.com/products/prime-center?variant=9532387395 https://www.svsound.com/products/prime-satellite-piano-gloss-outlet-1 https://www.svsound.com/products/sb-1000-pro-piano-gloss-outlet You’d be hard pressed to beat this for the price. If $3100 is too much I can save money on the receiver to meet your budget. Best of luck. |
If you really love music, then your 2 channel system should be totally stand alone with an HT bypass on your amp (Kinki studios Ex-m1+ is a great one). Then add a totally seperate HT amp and use the HT bypass to let your 2 channel system provice the front 2 channels for movies. If your priority is movies, then most people just drive their 2 channel sound with their reciever, but it will not be high end. Jerry |
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