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I am finally building out my basement into A/V Room, I want a receiver/ amp that will rock the house for my music and work great for movies.
does such a thing exist?
My budet is about a grand for the receiver and about $1500 for the speakers.
Any suggestions?
SO ATL
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on the loudspeakers.
The new range of Onkyos is getting raves around the world, and the 805 in particular hit the sweet spot. It has all the latest features like dts HD MA decoder and DSD decoding via HDMI 1.3a for SACD. As well as a working auto eq and level. It is THX ultra 2 certified.
Get a player with HDMI output.
Then the player is just a transport, and the 7.1 DACs in the Onkyo do the conversion, also for CDs.
The only HD DVD player I have found with dts HD MA is the new Toshiba HDA35 discouted to USD 400,
For Blue ray the Samung 1400 do dts HD MA cheapest, discounted at USD 300. Both on HDMI.
But getting a Toshiba A3 and 10 movies for USD164 is a safe starter, until player prices drop more, an dts HD MA becomes standard.
The Onkyo TX-SR705 is USD 100 cheaper, but not reviewd yet.
Once you have this level of amplifier and player sound quality, the main improvement will depend on loudspeakers.
Low priced electronics have improved a lot recently, low priced loudspeakers have not improved so much.
Even at USD 1800, a sub and 5 loudspeakers to do music well is tough to find. If stereo music is important, save on the center and rears, and spend more on L R front.
Since you need a sub anyway for the movies, get a small standmount 2 way L R front pair and play music as 2.1. The Onkyo allows you to set sub crossover at 40 or 50 Hz, giving better integration.
Get a sealed box subwoofer for music. And make sure it is real sub, not just a woofer with an amplifier. The sub sould concentrate on doing 20-40Hz, and frankly many subs only go down to 30 Hz.(or 40).
You could spend USD 5000 on loudspeakers and it will be worthwhile with the Onkyo 805.
Loudspeakers are the weakest link in the chain.
The Onkyo 805 will allow you to take a 5.1 signal and add 2 more (derived rear stereo) channels via Pro-Logic IIx layering to allow for 7.1 channels of audio. The lesser models in their line will not.
Hey thanks for the input, I looked up the 805 and the reviews state that the 805 has a popping noise, (Onkyo said that this is normal) have you had the same problem? was this corrected at a later date?
Any second choices?
Thanks Again
later production versions seem to have solved this problem according to some owners.
There are a ton of AV receivers priced at the $1000 mark. Check out the big hitters such as Yamaha, Denon, Onkyo. Some features that you should be looking for are HDMI switching and support for the new high resolution audio codecs such as Dolby True-HD and DTS MA.
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