ChadPa
Auditioning
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2003
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Ok hometheater gurus's need your help. I"m spending 5k on a home theater and looking at different options and want to get your opinions.
First tv-
Thinking either mitsu rear 65" plat series or gold series with a convergance 64pt kit. to dial it in right. around 3k or less.
or a dlp samsung or sony. most people i've talked to say the rear is still the way to go and the dlp doesn't have as many vertical lines as a rear and when a rear is dialed in right you will love it. mitsu is what i'm told is still the best in rear projection. Also i do play video games and don't want to worry about burn in, and i'm told even with a crt type or dlp i have to worry about burn in.
audio
speakers - either klipsch - rf series with a rsw -12 have a friend that can get them direct from klipsch for cost. he personally doesn't like them because he thinks the horns are bright. told me to listen to polk. boston, definative tech. nht. m&K, dynaudio and others.
but price wise the polk are the cheapest i can get. the klipsch reference will still be 2500 at cost with sub. the definative next actually m&K will be around klipsch price.
i listen to john mayer, dmb, and things like that. maily videos, dvd, video games, and then music for parties or stuff. so need something that will work for everything. looking at floorstanding for fronts instead of bookshelf's.
equipment.
looking either at the Harmon stuff around the 670 models or onkyo or dennon or yamaha. don't like the onkyo remote because of a friend having one and how hard it is to work. the dennon somewhat the same way. looking either at a refurbished model on the net real cheap looking for either 6.1 or 5.1 with lots of power around 100 a channel. if i go with the klipsch speakers they have horns so they don't need much power to be run. looking for something that will last for atleast 3yrs or so electronic wise until they come out with something new. Also looking at marantz products. heard they have some great stuff and remotes based around the phillips pronto.
think thats about it. basically if you had 5k to spend what equipment would you get. i want new tv. new speakers. and reciever i'm ok with refurbished but has to have warranty. either online or brick and mortors stores are ok.
i'll probably end up getting my buddies pronto from him as a remote. and i do like the new harmon look, with the black clean face and blue volume knob ring. but i've always heard that with the dlp's being new what's going to happen in 3yrs when the dlp chip goes out. whats that going to cost me. i know i'll be getting the extended warranty on that big of a tv. but the mitsu i can probably get for 3k under for a 65" the samsung which i have looked at and love i can only get in a 43 or 50 for around 3k or less.
First tv-
Thinking either mitsu rear 65" plat series or gold series with a convergance 64pt kit. to dial it in right. around 3k or less.
or a dlp samsung or sony. most people i've talked to say the rear is still the way to go and the dlp doesn't have as many vertical lines as a rear and when a rear is dialed in right you will love it. mitsu is what i'm told is still the best in rear projection. Also i do play video games and don't want to worry about burn in, and i'm told even with a crt type or dlp i have to worry about burn in.
audio
speakers - either klipsch - rf series with a rsw -12 have a friend that can get them direct from klipsch for cost. he personally doesn't like them because he thinks the horns are bright. told me to listen to polk. boston, definative tech. nht. m&K, dynaudio and others.
but price wise the polk are the cheapest i can get. the klipsch reference will still be 2500 at cost with sub. the definative next actually m&K will be around klipsch price.
i listen to john mayer, dmb, and things like that. maily videos, dvd, video games, and then music for parties or stuff. so need something that will work for everything. looking at floorstanding for fronts instead of bookshelf's.
equipment.
looking either at the Harmon stuff around the 670 models or onkyo or dennon or yamaha. don't like the onkyo remote because of a friend having one and how hard it is to work. the dennon somewhat the same way. looking either at a refurbished model on the net real cheap looking for either 6.1 or 5.1 with lots of power around 100 a channel. if i go with the klipsch speakers they have horns so they don't need much power to be run. looking for something that will last for atleast 3yrs or so electronic wise until they come out with something new. Also looking at marantz products. heard they have some great stuff and remotes based around the phillips pronto.
think thats about it. basically if you had 5k to spend what equipment would you get. i want new tv. new speakers. and reciever i'm ok with refurbished but has to have warranty. either online or brick and mortors stores are ok.
i'll probably end up getting my buddies pronto from him as a remote. and i do like the new harmon look, with the black clean face and blue volume knob ring. but i've always heard that with the dlp's being new what's going to happen in 3yrs when the dlp chip goes out. whats that going to cost me. i know i'll be getting the extended warranty on that big of a tv. but the mitsu i can probably get for 3k under for a 65" the samsung which i have looked at and love i can only get in a 43 or 50 for around 3k or less.