Which speakers for living room/home cinema?
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I need some help please choosing a brand of speakers to install a 5:1 system into my living room.
This won't be a dedicated home cinema as the room still needs to function and look like a living room with sofa and armchair, but I'm going to move furniture around to have more bias to being a home cinema. We have a 2nd living room that the wife tends to prefer to use for TV, so I kind of have free rein to do as a please with this room.
The room is approx 12ft x 12ft and I'll have the armchair as the main listening position, positioned square on to the TV, sitting around 10ft from it.
I'll be buying a new OLED TV (75"?), maybe a Denon AVC-X3800H receiver and perhaps an SVS amp. But I'm struggling to choose the FL, FR, Centre, RL & RR speakers as there are just so many brands to choose from. My budget for these 5 x speakers will be around £3k. Not sure yet if I want the FL & FR to be floor standing or bookcase. I need a starting point to then go listen to some. Does it make sense to stick to the same brand for all 5 speakers?
This won't be a dedicated home cinema as the room still needs to function and look like a living room with sofa and armchair, but I'm going to move furniture around to have more bias to being a home cinema. We have a 2nd living room that the wife tends to prefer to use for TV, so I kind of have free rein to do as a please with this room.
The room is approx 12ft x 12ft and I'll have the armchair as the main listening position, positioned square on to the TV, sitting around 10ft from it.
I'll be buying a new OLED TV (75"?), maybe a Denon AVC-X3800H receiver and perhaps an SVS amp. But I'm struggling to choose the FL, FR, Centre, RL & RR speakers as there are just so many brands to choose from. My budget for these 5 x speakers will be around £3k. Not sure yet if I want the FL & FR to be floor standing or bookcase. I need a starting point to then go listen to some. Does it make sense to stick to the same brand for all 5 speakers?
The Gauge said:
I need some help please choosing a brand of speakers to install a 5:1 system into my living room.
This won't be a dedicated home cinema as the room still needs to function and look like a living room with sofa and armchair, but I'm going to move furniture around to have more bias to being a home cinema. We have a 2nd living room that the wife tends to prefer to use for TV, so I kind of have free rein to do as a please with this room.
The room is approx 12ft x 12ft and I'll have the armchair as the main listening position, positioned square on to the TV, sitting around 10ft from it.
I'll be buying a new OLED TV (75"?), maybe a Denon AVC-X3800H receiver and perhaps an SVS amp. But I'm struggling to choose the FL, FR, Centre, RL & RR speakers as there are just so many brands to choose from. My budget for these 5 x speakers will be around £3k. Not sure yet if I want the FL & FR to be floor standing or bookcase. I need a starting point to then go listen to some. Does it make sense to stick to the same brand for all 5 speakers?
You'll be auditioning speaker systems hopefully; so stick with the main well known brands for now. Keeps it easyThis won't be a dedicated home cinema as the room still needs to function and look like a living room with sofa and armchair, but I'm going to move furniture around to have more bias to being a home cinema. We have a 2nd living room that the wife tends to prefer to use for TV, so I kind of have free rein to do as a please with this room.
The room is approx 12ft x 12ft and I'll have the armchair as the main listening position, positioned square on to the TV, sitting around 10ft from it.
I'll be buying a new OLED TV (75"?), maybe a Denon AVC-X3800H receiver and perhaps an SVS amp. But I'm struggling to choose the FL, FR, Centre, RL & RR speakers as there are just so many brands to choose from. My budget for these 5 x speakers will be around £3k. Not sure yet if I want the FL & FR to be floor standing or bookcase. I need a starting point to then go listen to some. Does it make sense to stick to the same brand for all 5 speakers?
So Bowers & Wilkins, Monitor Audio, Q Acoustics, KEF, Dynaudio, Dali etc - you'd soon get a system sorted from them
FWIW my pal has a 5.1 system based around his Marantz Cinema AV amp and he went for the MA Silver 100s with the MA Silver centre speaker & MA subwoofer - he runs Chord cables and Amazon special intereconnects to my old Rega Apollo CDP I've lent him, as he fixed it for me (he's good at tinkering, I'm not) haha
I've no idea re the TV he has; I think it's a 60'ish inch TV that stand mounted, his speakers are all on Atacama stand mounts (the glass tube ones) - I've watched the Band of Brothers series with him on that system and it was immense in my simple opinion as I know nothing re AV 5.1 systems etc - I was liuterally turning around when I could hear ricochet's and shouting that was coming from behind etc - very clever!
FYI he got it all via Peter Tyson up in Carlisle
The Gauge said:
Thanks. I'll be trying out some sneakers, probably at my local Richer Sounds who have a demo room. I have some time to do research as I first need to decorate and sell/buy furniture before buying any AV gear.
Ultimately your ears will dictate your preference, you won't really go wrong with anything you demo at somewhere like RS.Your speakers don't have to match either, my fronts, centre, sub and rears are all different, theres pros and cons to having them match, it just depends which route you want to take and where you want the majority of your budget to go.
You could go for an all in one box like this: https://www.focal.com/products/mu-so-hekla They are quite sensitive to positioning though.
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