Build a System for under $3000

[justin_tx_16]

i need to build a sound system like a quintet thing for my family... we want small speakers, nothing really bigger than the sats for the quintet... i know there are small ones, they can be bigger though. I need a receiver, speakers.. you know, everything involved with building a surround sound system. This will be both for music and for DVD... I just need the speakers and the power for them eg} amp receiver... This should fall around $3000 or less

Here is another thing.

If you could build a total HT system with around $3000 or lessamerican... including big tv, dvd, and sound w/ receiver... what would you get?

thanks, i need this infor ASAP

for both of these i would like to spend less than $2000 but i realize that tht may not be possible... for the just sound system... what compares to the System 6 and Quintet... are they way different? How about paradigm?

thanks again

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-justin

http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/berry/88/

[Superdave99]

Justin,

Without knowing your room dimensions I can't make any concrete reccomendations, but I have some suggestions for you.

Speakers:

Seriously take a look at the Energy Take 5.2 speaker set. This set includes 5 speakers and a sub, and it is an update on their award-winning Take 5 system. It retails for about $650 and there is not much better at this price. The speakers are not too much bigger than the quints, and they offer more midrange.

TV:

There are a lot of choices here. Consider a Sony 32" or 36" non-Wega television. Decide whether or not you want component inputs.

Receiver:

Again a lot of choices... For a medium sized room look at the Denon 2801 or Onkyo 575x receivers. They can be had for under $500. These brands make some of the more "musical" receivers.

DVD player:

Can't help you much here, but you have to decide what's important to you. Do you want progressive scan, the ability to play dvds, etc...

It's really hard to go wrong if you research wisely.

[CatKnight]

for a dvd player i would think he would want the ability to play dvd's

[rol1]

Does it have to be componet a/v equipment? How about a DVD, music, gaming setup?(I'm not talking about a g-force3, unless u want, but lots of hd space to have the games on harddisk so you don't have handle cd disks)

A Matrox Dual G450 W/tv , monitor in front of the big-screen, twinhead gaming at its' best. Matrox has some of the best tv outs.

Up to 4 DVDs, make 1 a burnproof cdrom recorder will fill the onboard IDEs.

Get a Promise FastTrac Raid controler. 4 @ 80 gig hds for the family's music archive & Divix files. 300 gig, might hold a few.

Music, Klipsch, of course. But all this about 4.1 and 5.1. AC3 and DTS now. Next Digital EX by dolby, then DTS-ES, then Sony's SDDS 6.2, all this within a couple of years.

What I suggest for sound is an Inca88 board and 2 sets of the 4.1s. Be carefull about the motherboard, pro studio boards sometime don't like some VIA chipsets. Power-DVD, gaming surround, q-sound support, multiple-descrete headphone support(like the pros), and to top it off it is a 8 channel recording studio also support power for mike that require such, just go look at the specs.

And 2 sets of 4.1s, I don't have to explain that, here, do I?