DanielJW
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- Apr 16, 2004
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Hi everyone,
I'm a student who will be living in an apartment next year during college, and I just sold of all of my PC speakers because I want to run my computer through a home theater setup.
Like I said, I'll be living in a comfortable but not enormous apartment. Initially I was going to buy a refurbished Onkyo 501 (TX-SR501) and some JBL E50 bookshelf speakers from JandR, but I just saw a refurbished Onkyo HTS760 6.1 setup at JandR for $300 as well, and now I'm confused.
I would like to keep everything around $500, but I would say that $600 is my limit. Also, because I am going to be moving frequently, I would like to keep my setup as transportable as possible, which is the original reason I wanted to do the Onkyo501 + E50's.
The bottom line is, I would just like some recommendations and/or feedback on what I've researched so far.
Here are some questions I had:
1.) Can I trust the REFURBISHED Onkyo 501?
2.) Will the E50's give me adequate frequency response (mostly concerned about low end), or are there better speakers in this price range?
and 3.) I eventually plan to add a projector to the setup; would all of this be compatible with say an Infocus X1?
Thank you so much in advance for your help in resolving my confusion.
Best,
Daniel
I'm a student who will be living in an apartment next year during college, and I just sold of all of my PC speakers because I want to run my computer through a home theater setup.
Like I said, I'll be living in a comfortable but not enormous apartment. Initially I was going to buy a refurbished Onkyo 501 (TX-SR501) and some JBL E50 bookshelf speakers from JandR, but I just saw a refurbished Onkyo HTS760 6.1 setup at JandR for $300 as well, and now I'm confused.
I would like to keep everything around $500, but I would say that $600 is my limit. Also, because I am going to be moving frequently, I would like to keep my setup as transportable as possible, which is the original reason I wanted to do the Onkyo501 + E50's.
The bottom line is, I would just like some recommendations and/or feedback on what I've researched so far.
Here are some questions I had:
1.) Can I trust the REFURBISHED Onkyo 501?
2.) Will the E50's give me adequate frequency response (mostly concerned about low end), or are there better speakers in this price range?
and 3.) I eventually plan to add a projector to the setup; would all of this be compatible with say an Infocus X1?
Thank you so much in advance for your help in resolving my confusion.
Best,
Daniel