StoneHouse
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I'm a novice at this stuff but my wife and I bought our first home and I'm ready for some help! I'm feeling lost seeking advice and Googled this forum, really hoping for some quality help. Here's a few points. Our upstairs has a room I'm making a theater room, this room is NOT the room I'm asking advice for today. For that room I'll do some standard 5.1 setup.
I'm asking advice for our living room. My current home theater setup is this:
1. Keep my living room surround setup, but replace the rear left and right speakers with Bluetooth speakers with something like Klipsch R-51pm. I have no idea what those are but one person suggested them, supposedly this would work? They're expensive, this would be $500 and don't necessarily want to spend $500 just on rear Bluetooth speakers. If this idea is good, I may ask for a suggestion for a lower priced rear left and right Bluetooth speaker, and I'm just assuming Bluetooth works with my existing Denon AVR-S540BT receiver.
2. Buy a Sonos Playbar. They're selling them at Costco on sale for like $560. Then buy their subwoofer which I saw was like $600 and some rear L and R speakers for the full setup for another $350 ish. This whole setup is expensive, I don't necessarily want to spend it but.. I guess I could.. This setup also has a REALLY cool benefit I heard about, it can connect to my phone and play music via bluetooth. Also, I could buy some random speakers (supposedly?) and place them throughout my house, they'd connect via wifi, and I could have some speakers play the same music throughout my house, including in my basement.
2a. Is this setup going to sound better than my current living room setup (Denon + Dayton) I have? It's significantly more expensive, somebody told me it would sound better. Would it?
2b. If I pick this setup, can somebody tell me which Sonos rear L and R speakers I'd buy, and which sub? I think I saw they only have one sub.
2c. Is the thing I heard about buying random speakers and having them all connect via wifi true? If so, this option seems cool, I do have a basement I'd like to have music.
3. I do the same as #2, except I buy the Arc. I watched a Youtube video and it does look tempting, I may get the Arc if you suggest option 2.
Thanks guys, everything I said here is stuff I just recently heard so please connect me if it's inaccurate.
I'm asking advice for our living room. My current home theater setup is this:
- Denon AVR-S540BT receiver
- Dayton audio speakers, one center (C452-Air), two front L and R (B452), a sub and two rears that I bought about a year ago for maybe ~$450.
1. Keep my living room surround setup, but replace the rear left and right speakers with Bluetooth speakers with something like Klipsch R-51pm. I have no idea what those are but one person suggested them, supposedly this would work? They're expensive, this would be $500 and don't necessarily want to spend $500 just on rear Bluetooth speakers. If this idea is good, I may ask for a suggestion for a lower priced rear left and right Bluetooth speaker, and I'm just assuming Bluetooth works with my existing Denon AVR-S540BT receiver.
2. Buy a Sonos Playbar. They're selling them at Costco on sale for like $560. Then buy their subwoofer which I saw was like $600 and some rear L and R speakers for the full setup for another $350 ish. This whole setup is expensive, I don't necessarily want to spend it but.. I guess I could.. This setup also has a REALLY cool benefit I heard about, it can connect to my phone and play music via bluetooth. Also, I could buy some random speakers (supposedly?) and place them throughout my house, they'd connect via wifi, and I could have some speakers play the same music throughout my house, including in my basement.
2a. Is this setup going to sound better than my current living room setup (Denon + Dayton) I have? It's significantly more expensive, somebody told me it would sound better. Would it?
2b. If I pick this setup, can somebody tell me which Sonos rear L and R speakers I'd buy, and which sub? I think I saw they only have one sub.
2c. Is the thing I heard about buying random speakers and having them all connect via wifi true? If so, this option seems cool, I do have a basement I'd like to have music.
3. I do the same as #2, except I buy the Arc. I watched a Youtube video and it does look tempting, I may get the Arc if you suggest option 2.
Thanks guys, everything I said here is stuff I just recently heard so please connect me if it's inaccurate.