Hello
Just a bit of very general advice before I splash out the cash. Is it
possible to get decent hi fi sound from a av five speaker set up or
should I just stick to a good quality two speaker system for cd
playing. Any advice appreciated.
Thanks very much

wrote:
Hello
Just a bit of very general advice before I splash out the cash. Is it
possible to get decent hi fi sound from a av five speaker set up or
should I just stick to a good quality two speaker system for cd
playing. Any advice appreciated.
Thanks very much


From my (very) limited and recent experience of this - an AV amp could
form the start of a half decent hifi. Then bolt on a pair of decent
speakers as mains (tiddly Missions or wotnot) and some cheap surrounds.

You could do the whole lot for 100UKP through ebay, or 300UKP new. AV
amp prices seem to drop like stones as soon as a new 'killer feature' is
announced.

Just a thought based on a recent 4 year old Yamaha AV amp - stands up
well to other separate amps I've bought.

Rob

Could be the ay to go. Had not realised the price of av amps drop like
bricks. The good hi fi amps only seem to loose a little bit each year.
Cheers

On 25 May 2006 12:54:58 -0700, wrote:

Hello
Just a bit of very general advice before I splash out the cash. Is it
possible to get decent hi fi sound from a av five speaker set up or
should I just stick to a good quality two speaker system for cd
playing. Any advice appreciated.

Buy five speakers of the same quality as the two you were thinking of,
and you get better sound. Of course, if you meant an identical budget
in each case, that's a more difficult question.
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In article , Stewart Pinkerton
wrote:
On 25 May 2006 12:54:58 -0700, wrote:

Hello Just a bit of very general advice before I splash out the cash.
Is it possible to get decent hi fi sound from a av five speaker set up
or should I just stick to a good quality two speaker system for cd
playing. Any advice appreciated.

Buy five speakers of the same quality as the two you were thinking of,
and you get better sound. Of course, if you meant an identical budget in
each case, that's a more difficult question.

The complication is that it may be harder to find 5 loudspeaker locations
in the room which are domestically acceptable and give optimum audio
results. It may also mean you have to alter the listening position away
from where stereo works best. This isn't anything to do with the quality of
the amp or speakers per se, but the practical difficulties of employing
them in a normal room.

My personal reaction is based on being more concerned to get optimum
results from stereo. Hence I decided to ignore extra speakers, and just use
stereo for 'AV' as well as music. However this will depend on your personal
preferences as well as the details of the room.

Slainte,

Jim

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Jim Lesurf wrote:
The complication is that it may be harder to find 5 loudspeaker locations
in the room which are domestically acceptable and give optimum audio
results.

Hi

For those with spouses who absolutely won't have cables and speakers all
over the place the Yamaha YSP-800 may be some kind of solution. The
surround sound (in an appropriate room) is really pretty good to my
ears. The product has been quite well reviewed by the normally relaible
CNET at

http://reviews.cnet.com/Yamaha_YSP_8...-31624253.html

too.

Not hifi though I grant you.

Regards

David

David Houpt wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:
The complication is that it may be harder to find 5 loudspeaker locations
in the room which are domestically acceptable and give optimum audio
results.

Hi

For those with spouses who absolutely won't have cables and speakers all
over the place the Yamaha YSP-800 may be some kind of solution. The
surround sound (in an appropriate room) is really pretty good to my
ears. The product has been quite well reviewed by the normally relaible
CNET at

http://reviews.cnet.com/Yamaha_YSP_8...-31624253.html


too.

Not hifi though I grant you.


Probably gives a decent enough sound (at a price) without the inevitable
wire tangle.

My suggestion to get the ball rolling was use as hifi first, and
passable HT second, based on very recent experience. Using 4 speakers
gives a superb HT sound[1], and I can't see myself getting a centre or
sub for HT. A DTS soundtrack was tremendous, and the rear speakers don't
seem to do too much. Much better than other systems I've heard/had -
admittedly only those all-in-one sub-400UKP 5.1 things.

Really depends on the OP's room, domestic arrangements, budget and
music-HT priorities.

Rob

[1]
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-DSP-A59... QcmdZViewItem
plus Dynaudio 52s(F) and 42s(R) - speakers not exactly budget, I'd grant
you.

Had not even considered just using four speakers, I do have the wife to
consider though, wires everywhere etc.
So four speakers like above tied into a Yamaha as above would sound
excellent, not superb but pretty good never the
less....................................suppose you could add a sub but
back to more wiring

wrote:
Had not even considered just using four speakers, I do have the wife to
consider though, wires everywhere etc.

She'll love it :-)

I'd get some more opinions/have a listen - as I say, it works for me but ...

So four speakers like above tied into a Yamaha as above would sound
excellent, not superb but pretty good never the
less....................................suppose you could add a sub but
back to more wiring


The Yamaha sounds fine to me at anything up to mid-volume, and then the
bass 'softens'. There are preamp outs, so I've tried it with another
amplifier which improves things, but it's not a biggie. A point with AV
amps is that you get lots to play with - from simple bass/treble to all
sorts of digital effects. Now, most of those effects just seem to add
echo, but it's all good clean fun :-)

Rob

On Fri, 26 May 2006 08:57:18 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , Stewart Pinkerton
wrote:
On 25 May 2006 12:54:58 -0700, wrote:

Hello Just a bit of very general advice before I splash out the cash.
Is it possible to get decent hi fi sound from a av five speaker set up
or should I just stick to a good quality two speaker system for cd
playing. Any advice appreciated.

Buy five speakers of the same quality as the two you were thinking of,
and you get better sound. Of course, if you meant an identical budget in
each case, that's a more difficult question.

The complication is that it may be harder to find 5 loudspeaker locations
in the room which are domestically acceptable and give optimum audio
results. It may also mean you have to alter the listening position away
from where stereo works best. This isn't anything to do with the quality of
the amp or speakers per se, but the practical difficulties of employing
them in a normal room.

My personal reaction is based on being more concerned to get optimum
results from stereo. Hence I decided to ignore extra speakers, and just use
stereo for 'AV' as well as music. However this will depend on your personal
preferences as well as the details of the room.

Agreed, I use a '2.0' approach to AV, as I don't yet have a projector
in a dedicated 'home cinema', and I find a room-sized soundfield with
a relatively tiny picture extremely distracting - definitely not what
the director intended!
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