Yeah, well I have a decent receiver. At least, it WAS a decent receiver when I bought it (Kenwood 1080VR). Doesn't do DTS though, which is annoying. By the time I'm ready to build my HT, I may want to just buy a new one. But I'll probably still keep it for a while anyway. An interesting...
Yeah, I know the value of buying something good from the start. Problem is, my parents have no interest in home theater and they just don't understand it. My dad is a pan&scan, brightness and sharpness cranked, low sound quality kinda guy. He has no interest in picture quality or sound, and...
Ok, dad has made his choice. He bought a pair of Panasonic floor standing speakers at Costco for $115 Canadian. :rolleyes: Only a couple more years till I move out... Jonny K. :)
Darn. Never mind this post. Turns out we had another set of speakers from another stereo that seems to work decently to replace the broken set. :rolleyes: Dad flipped when I told him I asked you guys about speakers for under 1,000. He declared that tomorrow we're going to buy some speakers...
Right now I have a frankenstein home theater. It's made up of a bunch of mis-matched speakers that I found here and there around the house. It kinda started with me buying a receiver to get a digital radio at home, and I thought "hey, why not play with it?". The sound really sucks, and one...