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If you can stretch that budget a tiny bit you can buy one of Fluance's five speaker systems, a cheap (~$200) receiver, and the $120 10" Dayton subwoofer from partsexpress.com. This would probably put you over budget by about $100-$150, but it'd be well worth it, in my opinion. You would probably...

I leave the grills off of my B&W DM303s and my LCR3. I'm pretty sure I can hear a difference with the grills on, but it's not enough of one to make me have a preference one way or another based on sound. On the other hand, I think these speakers look great with the grills off, so that's the...

A friend of mine just purchased a set of five Fluance speakers (the SX-HTB package). He's coming from a pretty basic RCA Home-Theater-in-a-Box. His old HTiB included five small wood satellite/mini-bookshelf speakers, a pretty standard receiver, and a small, passive RCA subwoofer. He's on a tight...

Of the cars you listed, your best bets in terms of fit and finish are going to be the japanese makers - specifically the Civic and the Corolla. Those two cars will most likely have the highest quality interior parts and thus the least amount of rattles, creaks, and squeaks. I'm not sure how a...

Okay, a few questions. First of all, my current car is a '97 BMW 740iL. Won't be doing any work on this car since I'll be trading it in on a '97 or '98 BMW 540i soon enough, but since the two cars use similiar speaker setups I've been investigating exactly what's possible. In doing this, I've...

I'll second either the Athenas at Best Buy or one of the options from Fluance.

For what it's worth, I'm quite happy with the Dayton 10". On the other hand, I think I might have to go against the general consensus and say that, at higher levels, this sub can definitely put out a fair amount of bass for a large room. I recently moved my home theater into a VERY large...

I live in an older raised ranch (built in the 60's) and it has an 'upper basement' that was previously used as a family room. I'm currently refinishing this room and preparing it as a (mostly) dedicated HT room. Originally, the room was finished with ugly wood paneling over the walls and...

Randy, I have no experience with the old 10" Dayton, but I just received my new one from partsexpress a week ago. I'm very, very pleased. This thing sounds significantly better than many $300+ subs that I'd been auditioning for the past couple of weeks. On the downside, it's not particularly...

Also, if you're going to buy speakers seperately consider looking into the DLS 10" sub that partsexpress.com is selling. I just bought one recently and, for the money, it sounds spectacular matched with my B&W DM303s. I believe they're selling for around $120.

I could be wrong here, but I believe that, for most receivers, the speaker size setting determines the crossover point. When set to 'small' the speakers will only receive higher frequency sound, whereas when set to large they'll get a more full range. The small speaker setting is mostly for...

I can only speak from experience, but I'm damn happy with my Yamaha HTR-5660. Then again, I'm using B&W DM303s all around, so I have a strictly budget system. So YMMV.

I can't comment just yet, but I've ordered two of them after being advised that these little guys easily beat out most subwoofers in the $200-$300 price range that I was looking in. Mine is scheduled to come in this friday, so if you still haven't decided by then I can add my review to help...

FWIW, I was using a pair of Polk R20s for a while that I was moderately happy with. They've since been replaced by B&W DM303s, but for how cheaply they're priced they're fairly decent speakers. All IMO, of course.

Back when I was using my 5.1 receiver I never bought a center channel because I didn't want to use a center speaker, but didn't want to buy another pair of DM303s and have an extra speaker that I had no use for. When I bought my new receiver I finally gave in and purchased another pair and...

As some of you may remember, my sub (a cheap Aiwa) has been acting up for a while. I've never been incredibly happy with it, but lately it's been making a kind of vibrating, distorted noise whenever it has to do anything at even moderate volume. I want to replace it, but it's just not in my...

If your DVD player has build-in decoders and outputs along 6 analog channels and your receiver has 6 channel inputs I don't see why they wouldn't work together.

Jeremy, Yeah, as far as I could tell a few extra features were the only thing that made the 5660 any better. As far as sound goes, I really couldn't hear a difference between the two. The place I auditioned these in has a room set-up with all DM303s (lucky for me) so, hopefully, I have a...

Well, I'm finally upgrading the budget Technics receiver that I've been using for a while. I have up to $500 to spend, but I'd like to keep the price a little lower if possible. Right now, I'm using B&W DM303s all around and have an extra pair that I bought for my center channel. This means that...

I'm jealous. :frowning: Still stuck on my DM303s here. Not to say I'm not happy, but having heard the 602s I definitely wish I could afford some. Hope you enjoy them! :emoji_thumbsup:

I'm working on converting part of my basement into a combination home theater/gaming (LAN party, heh) room. It's a large, L shaped room. Since I prefer more intimate, close areas for movie viewing I'm going to be using the foot of the "L" as the HT area. My entertainment center, TV, and front...

Hmmm. I think I'm going to go for it and order the Vidsonix. For $100 I can't go too wrong... I hope.

Thanks for the link, Dale. It does look good, although I'm wary of buying something that I don't know anything about. I've never heard of vidsonix, does anyone here have any experience with them? Sorry if I seem overly critical, but even though I can spend up to around $200, even $100 is a...

Glad to see that I'm not alone. As much as I'd like to get a good subwoofer right now, my car is a lot more important to me and I can't take any chances with it... so the last bit of saved cash I have is going on a good aftermarket warranty, which only leaves me with around $200 for a subwoofer...

I'm just curious if this sub is still available. I'd been saving for an SVS, but thanks to BMW's insane part costs my car has sucked down all of the money I put away. And, thanks to my great luck, my old subwoofer died on me a few days ago. I still plan on picking up an SVS in mid to late...

I would recommend the B&W dm303s. I use them for my bedroom setup and am very happy with them. On the other hand, I wouldn't recommend 'em without a sub. With a sub, though, they're excellent for music and movies. The downside is that they're not shielded, so it's a bit hard to place them if you...

A testing in need is a testing indeed.

Altan, I figured as much. I wasn't even planning on trying to get Circuit City to match the Costco price, as the AVR325 is also ~$300 cheaper at Costco. I was really just using CC so I could hear the AVR325 before ordering it online... Damn those greedy Circuit City managers. :D

Hey everyone, I've finally made up my mind on my new receiver and will most likely be purchasing the H/K AVR325 from Costco for $500. Thanks to everyone who recommended the AVR325 and advised me on other receivers to look at, you all helped loads when it came time to finally decide on one...