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New sound system for the house....


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2016 Dec 19, 8:40am   9,113 views  12 comments

by joshuatrio   ➕follow (4)   💰tip   ignore  

I'd like some recommendations for a decent sound system for my house. Not necessarily home theater, but one to play music across the main living area into the kitchen. I'd like it to basically be able to multiple purpose.

My thoughts are that I would like something that doesn't take up a lot of space. I've seen some smaller bookshelf like speakers that look like they might be nice. And even some smaller cube like speakers that would do well speaker mount wise. The bose systems look nice (little cubes), but everything I read indicates that they are a poor buy.

My budget is $1000 or less - to include the receiver.

Disclaimer, I know nothing about speakers/sound quality etc...

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1   joshuatrio   2016 Dec 19, 9:35am  

jazz music says

they perform well but the price isn't justified.

That's what I read over and over.

jazz music says

Then again a lot of people listening to music really don't care that much about how it sounds. LOL

I'd like it to sound nice and clean. Good lows, but I don't need insane thumping bass.

I keep reading good things about polk and klipsch.

2   Ceffer   2016 Dec 19, 10:34am  

Actually, rather than have a built in solution, just using a high quality boom box in a corner of the room does surprisingly well. The corner placement does some acoustic loading of the sound.

A boom box is also mobile. Wireless streaming could stream music from a computer, cell phone, ipod or music server.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JU9FXF4/?tag=myflipboard-20

You could buy a couple of these that have plug in adaptors, and play music to them from a server or your cell phone/ipod and place the boxes in the best corners in the rooms you want served. When you want to go, just pick them up and take them.

3   HEY YOU   2016 Dec 19, 10:38am  

I think that most sound is dependent on an individuals ears,choice of music.
My EXPERT FREE ADVICE,I charge everyone else, is to listen to different systems,starting with
the least expensive & don't listen to those above your price range because we all have a tendency to
overbuy.
When I moved I sold a really good system that I had pieced together at very cheap prices.
When I got settled in my new shack. I exhausted myself on craigslist,putting a system together.
It was worth the time & price. Before buying used,research repair shops.Sometimes a repair can be cheaper than one may think. Finding an old codgers used system might not be a bad idea.
If you listen to others' systems just agree that they have a nice system & don't let someone talk you into
systems they like.
This is such a subjective decision. GOOD LUCK & TURN IT UP,a little!

4   Entitlemented   2016 Dec 19, 10:39am  

My budget is $1000 or less - to include the receiver.

Kef Dual Way, Small Arcam Reciever - Mid Fi!

6   Ceffer   2016 Dec 19, 8:49pm  

Paradigms are Canadian speakers, and Canada is one of the few countries that has a state of the art government sound labs that it allows private industry to use to develop sound products without the R&D costs. Thus, the Canadian speaker companies tend to have some very nice products at reasonable prices.

As pointed out, Bose is a waste of money, because you can do much better with the budget and a lot of Bose stuff is simply marketing flog for at best middling product.

7   anonymous   2016 Dec 19, 9:22pm  

Sanyo is about as good as it gets.

8   Philistine   2016 Dec 19, 9:35pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Wagner's Parsifal

True enough. I prefer certain recordings of Holst's "The Planets", and also the Colgem's pressing of the 1967 'Casino Royale' soundtrack when testing my phonogramophonical apparatus. If it doesn't bounce with Bacharach, it's not fit to fuck. Also, this is on a 1977 shitty JCPenny's turntable (regularly maintained with proper cartridge and needles) and 1999-ish Sony receiver with some liquidation sale 2005-ish Bose tinyspeakers, a subwoofer of similar vintage, and some random crap Kenwood speakers from the late '80s as backup on channel 3 and 4.

Agreed that our ears are our hearts when it comes to the technicality of sound. A correctly sized listening room with pneumatic acoustics goes a long way to making shit sound like Shinola.

9   Philistine   2016 Dec 19, 9:55pm  

jazz music says

I haven't heard that name in a while. Burt Bahcarach and Hal David

They were the epitome of the suave Anglo pimp and his prim concubine making sweet nasty music together. Something to get the lady juices flowing on top, but underneath, an instrumental and rhythmic sensibility that got the chthonic bass throbbing. APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Don't knock the Penny

To be fair, I didn't want to go down this rabbit hole so as not to bore the uninitiated. It's an MCS badge, which I was quite sure *was* the Technics manufacture, but not entirely sure. Has sounded and served me well for many coke parties and Count Basie restrospectives.

10   joshuatrio   2016 Dec 20, 3:54am  

Anyone heard of ELAC speakers?They seem to have pristine reviews and seem like an incredibly low budget alternative to the high end stuff out there....

https://www.amazon.com/Debut-Bookshelf-Speakers-Andrew-Jones/dp/B014GSEQ06/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1482175468&sr=1-3&keywords=elac+s10#customerReviews

Ironman says

That's the first thing you need to figure out, what is the source of the sound. Are you going to stream music (like Pandora, Sirius or some other online source, are you playing saved music (mp3) from a local source, are you streaming music via Bluetooth, playing existing CD's? The source (and recorded quality) plays a BIG part in the final sound. You can't make something sound better if it was recorded low fidelity.

Example, I play music when I'm working and transmit it via Bluetooth from my tablet to my receiver (which is Bluetooth capable). The saved and streamed MP3's sound a hell of a lot better (because I saved them at a higher quality) then when I stream my Sirius music (which I believe is compressed to save bandwith).

MP3 and streaming primarily.

11   joshuatrio   2016 Dec 20, 3:55am  

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Most anything built in the 70s by Pioneer, Nikko, Onkyo, Harmon Kardon will give you a fine result. (From what I gather from technicians versed in the gear of the era, a lot of the Japanese designs were similar because they simply worked with the solid state options of the time which were limited compared to today's incredible catalog.) I had a really old Nikko receiver that needed help, the mid-line, dowdy NR-1015, and the repairman laughed at it - until he opened it. He had his prejudices but he had to admit the tuner section and the turntable pre-amps were really first class.

I'm going to look into older gear ... thanks for the idea.

12   Y   2016 Dec 20, 4:14am  

I've never heard music referred to as 'literature' before.
Are you perchance listening in braille?

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Just unerringly competent across all literature.

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