Now ive got my new HD tv and with sky hd being ordered I want to change my surround set up

A the mo I have a 5.1 Sanyo dvd player and speakers

Its used for my PS3 aswell

What are you guys using ?

Any pics please show

 

bttt

 

I don't really like the "all in one" systems - my mum has one (DVD player with 5.1 outputs, goes into an active subwith speaker outputs to satellite speakers) which is okay for her, but I wanted something a bit "more"

So I use a dedicated AV Receiver - 6.1 decoding, multi analogue and digital inputs, blah blah blah, and use a montage of Mission speakers - nice big floor standers for the front L + R (which work nicely as stereo speakers for music) along with dipole rears, a small-ish centre and an active sub

 

Any pics mate so I can see what you have written please

 

No decent ones - only this one from last year (still same set up tho, except the amp which I changed)



Rears are these - 2 speakers per unit, dipole config for spatial/diffuse rear fill;

http://kepek.freemail.hu/fototar/kep...f/3894174.jpeg

and I changed the amp for one of these;

http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/p...Product_ID/800

 

cheers mate

 

No pics as am in process off building a false chimney breast to house my TV but I agree 110% with Thrush, most all in one Surround packages you get from normal high street places are good but not THAT good...

For surround, I use:

Onkyo 606 AV Receiver
2 x Acoustic Energy [AE] 120 Floor Standers
2 x AE 100i Rear Surrounds
1 x AE 107c Centre speaker

I've had the speakers for an age and they cost a bit when I got them but you can get some great deals for less than half the price on MUCH better speakers now. I had an active sub but it was involved in an argument with a big mug of tea

Depending on your budget, I've seen some LG stuff recently in the magazines that's been getting good write-ups? Have a look in What Hi Fi.

 

Does me well enough - it's by no means super fidelity or anything, but it sounds good enough and can go pretty fookin loud before it distorts or clips

Those Mission floor standers have enough low end in them to not need to have the sub on when playing music, which was what I was after, and I just use the sub when watching proper 5.1/6.1 encoded films, or multichannel audio.

Rears are subtle and give nice fill for sound effects, and with them having 4 speakers between them, they are GREAT for car chases, gun fights etc, and things whipping across the soundstage behind you

Centre is a bit rubbish to be fair - it's only a cheap Eltax model cos the Mission I had didn't fit in the TV unit, and I've still not got round to getting a better Mission model that fits - and to be fair, it's only really used for dialogue. You notice it's not as good when playing Super Audio CD's or multichannel audio, but thats quite rare anyway....

The amps got some guts to it, which is nice, tho I find I need to have the EQ boosted on it to get the bass I want from the front speakers....

 

Thats the other thing - like Paddy says, you can get so much stuff nowadays for cheap if it's second hand and the like. My Mission fronts were £600 or so new - I paid £125 for em. Rears were £200 - paid £55, amp was £350ish new, I paid £120. Hell the TV was £1200 new, I paid £250 for it

 

Yeah! There's always people selling their old stuff on places like AV Forums and most of the time it's people with too much money buying the latest stuff ,so you can relieve them and get a some relly good equipment for a bargain price.

 

cheers guys

 

i recently upgraded mine, i had a denon 1 box system for over 5 years that was ace, run it through another amp for 7.1 with floor standers etc... thats now de-specced a bit & in the bedroom, for the front room i now run a Denon AVR-1909 AV receiver (good as it has a few HDMI inputs) Eltax centre speaker, Celestion floor standers for front left & right, Gale silver moniters for rears, some smaller Denons for side effects & a Cambridge Audio active sub.

 

I am running Mission M34 floorstanders for my fronts, mission M3ci centre , Q-Acoustics 1010 for the rears and a Tannoy subwoofer. got this running off an Onkyo 605 amp

 

have a sony dav1s the speakers are tiny but give an awesome amount sound


http://planetprices.co.uk/c-13/p-973...-DAV-IS10/ebay

oh and it goes very well with the ps3

 

I didn't want to go for a showy setup with a big tv unit, so I've kept it all low key.

Since the pictures, I've added skirting to hide the wheels.

40" Samsung LCD
Onkyo 606 amp
Monitor Audio 5.1 speakers
PS3 / Sky HD

 

Bose centre speaker because it's nice and low.
Mission 735 left and right- Big floor standers
Mission rear surrounds.
Mission 100 watt active sub.
Yamaha 5.1 reciever runing center and rears only.
Pre outs from Yamaha into Technics SUA900 amp for left and right as well as CD's

I'm using the optical output on Sky HD box and you need to switch it to dolby digital output as the default setting is stereo.

Main speakers are too close together but I don't really have the room to put them anywhere else !



Mark

 

Awesome nice set up

Just what im after

 

Has anyone else come across a problem with the digital output on sky hd? At the B&O shop I work at, we've been having problems with it only outputting a signal on certain channels....which is lame. However, audio over hdmi, which should in theory be the same signal, is perfectly fine!

 

Not had any problem with the optical on Sky HD, in fact it sound f@@king awesome on the Onkyo

 

Kef egg speaker setup, pioneer 7.1 dolby dts amp.

Would like to upgrade, but that cost about 1.5k + 1k tv. Dont think the boss will allow it

 

cheers guys

giving me some great ideas

 

I've got a similar set up to "Fasterfords" although not layed out as neatly

*Toshiba 40" LCD
*Onkyo TX-SR606 Amp
*Denon DVD-1940 Up-scaling DVD player
*Monitor Audio BR5's (2 front speakers)
*Monitor Audio BR-LCR (center speaker)
*Monitor Audio BR-FX's (2 rear speakers)
*Monitor Audio BRW-10 (sub)
*QED cabling throughout





That pretty lot cost me the best part of £3k but its so so worth it imo. The sound is incredible!!

 

Your brave putting that Onkyo in there with no space above it. Have you seen how hot they get ?

The manual suggests over a foot of air space above it

 

sorry no pics, but i have

Pioneer 42" Plasma
Kef 1005.2 speakers + subwoofer
Onkyo 606 amp (that i am not allowed untill xmas)
Sky HD
PS3
XBOX 360 Elite
Wii

plan on getting some floor standing front speakers in the new year to go 7.1, but havn't decided which yet

 

Yeah it does get pretty warm but theres about an inch of space above it (not enough I know) and plenty of space at the back. Even after say 3 hours or so of continuous use, it performs just fine and has done for the last 9 months.

 

This is my setup :-

Samsung LE40M86BD 40" 1080 LCD TV
Samsung BD-P1400 Blu-Ray Player
Samsung AV-R720 AV Amp
Acer Inspire 510 XP Media Centre
JBL CS460 5.1 Speaker Set

I chose the Samsung amp because it has some bling network feature that allows all compatible Samsung devices to talk over HDMI (only requires one remote control). Unfortunately it's shit and hardly works (and doesn't talk to the blu-ray player at all) .. Never again. The TV is the nuts though. One of the best contrast LCD's i've seen with great blacks.

Speakers were budget at £200/set in a sale. The sub is really nice actually, but the rest is average. Haven't quite got the balance right yet on the rears. Total cost (got some bargains) stands in at about £1500.

Here's some random piccies

 

i think some of you are out of order for posting up pics with blue ray players or PS3's,,,,,,,



i was going to buy a blue ray player, then thought by the time i spend £2-300 on a player i might as well get a PS3, been putting it off thinking i should save the money after spending nearly another grand last month one the AV receiver etc, after looking at this post again this morning i had to trundle into town & give into temptation