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Hi folks,
Been quite a while since I've posted on the Asylum. I just splurged for a fancy plasma, and I don't have anything in the way of a sound system for it, so I'd like to get one together asap. I live in a small apartment so I neither need nor have room for any sort of surround system. I'd like to do a decent 2-channel, possibly with a sub, for somewhere in the neighborhood of $400-$600. I plan to buy used. Basically I'm looking for a good amp and a couple bookshelf speakers.
Thanks for any suggestions. Hope all is well with everybody in these parts.
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I wasn't really looking for an audio setup but I stumbled across a Yamaha preamp/amp combo plus a couple of speakers, all for less than $400. I didn't realize what I passed up until the next day, but it was too late by then.
OTOH, I'm still looking to stumble across a $50 Linn LP12 turntable at an estate sale....
Ditto, estate sales and yard sales.
I picked up a pair of vintage AR speakers and a Rotel receiver for $5 a couple years ago at a sale, and last Summer a lady at a yard sale gave me a perfectly fine working Nikko integrated amp because she wasn't sure if it worked or not.
Rod
$25 for a pair of Mission 701. Not as good a deal as the $6 pair of Energy mini speakers that I found at a fund-raising sale for a dance school. But not a bad 2.0 setup if combined with the NAD 705 receiver I scooped from the scrap metal bin at the recycling yard.
Don't get discouraged if you go to the thrift store and only see junk... they tend to price good and bad the same, so not surprisingly, good stuff sells faster. Find out if there's a day when they put out new goods, or just make it a habit to check every week or so.
This uses the little digital T amp to power the upper frequencies using the small speakers, plus an inexpensive, simple to construct DIY powered sub.
http://www.dldebertin.com/speakers/avexercise.htm
Search for TA2024... they're a lot cheaper as boards. Put two or three stereo modules in a single box, fed from a DVD or BD player that has line-level surround outputs (and built-in volume control). It should be quite adequate for a bedroom or dorm setup. For bass, get a cheap powered sub or power something from a spare stereo receiver or integrated amp.
Setting up a 2.1 channel system neednt be costly. You may already have a 2 channel amp or receiver you can use. If not, the "T" amp idea is one approach that costs $50 or so. But you can buy a new Stereo receiver at a big box retailer for $100 or so, too.
You may have some small stereo speakers you want to use. But there are also new speakers that would work well in this application for $50 a pair if you check the various on-line retailers, and give you better sound and stereo separation than the TV speakers
There is a nice little self-powered sub from Yamaha with 8-inch woofer generally available on ebay for about $70, or you can DIY one of these as I outlined for about $50 in parts.
You could hook up your BD player to your integrated amp for movies and leave your TV for normal viewing duties, and then all you need is a power sub.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Hi koot,
So there won't be issues running the sound through a standard 2-channel amp? I don't *need* some kind of surround sound-processing multichannel amp, even though I'd just be using it for a two-channel application?
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Stranger than that, we're alive!Whatever you think it's more than that, more than that.
-Incredible String Band
As the matter of fact, I have a set-up like this in my master bedroom where I have the DVD player connected to aux. input of my integrated amp via rca cables in my two-channel system.Depending on your speaker’s low frequency response, you may not need a power sub at the end.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Edits: 09/22/09
I do prefer the idea of keeping them as two separate entities, but it might be worth integrating them. I've been so stuck on my image of the apartment (I just moved in, so I'm still getting settled; haven't even received the TV/DVDP yet) that I hadn't even really considered combining them. But maybe...
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Stranger than that, we're alive!Whatever you think it's more than that, more than that.
-Incredible String Band
I've been using my music system with our plasma for three years now. It's great! Only issue might be having the flat screen between the speakers, and the impact is has on imaging for music.
Rod
Sorry, broke the first rule of asking questions on AA...
So far what I've got is a Panasonic Viera TC-P42G10 and an LG BD390 as the source.
I know nothing about 7.1 or compressing surround sound or what have you. I expect the first piece of advice will be to get a surround sound processor anyway, but for now I really want to keep it to 2-channel. So I suppose expandibility is a concern, but, again: cheapish! I've already stretched my budget to the breaking point for the moment.
Thanks in advance.
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Stranger than that, we're alive!Whatever you think it's more than that, more than that.
-Incredible String Band
The TV must have the same suspension as the rest of your system to match and to get full enjoyment:
suspended on rainbows and the laughter of children.
BTW, your system was one of the funniest things that I ever read.
I have similar hobbies only I do have to travel extensively. It's no longer fun.
The cheapest option, infinitely expandable at a later date, is simply to use the speakers in the TV if it has 2 speakers. That will give you stereo. Just make sure that the BD player is set up to send a stereo signal to the TV by picking the right options in the player's setup menu.
If you want to do it any other way you're going to have to buy either a stereo integrated amplifier or a receiver plus speakers. Most receivers are surround sound so you're buying a lot of channels that you don't need though NAD did make a reasonable 2 channel AV receiver at one stage and may still do so.
The thing is that if you have stereo speakers in the TV you don't need anything else in order to get stereo sound. You can spend money to improve the quality of that sound but if you've already stretched your budget to the breaking point I'd live with what you've got until you can afford to get something a bit better than bottom of the line.
David Aiken
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