Need help deciding on a Home Theater setup.....?

Question

I am looking to buy a new home theater setup preferably a complete set not just the receiver and then buying the speakers. I need a blu-ray player and have checked Sony as well as Samsung but maybe i am just not looking close enough, I want at least a 200W Sub. At the moment I own a Yamaha HT System and am very unsatisfied with it, the dvd drive is already starting to stop working the sub (150W) bumps quieter than my 2.1 computer speaker setup with has a 25W sub, Can anyone suggest a good setup and it has to have blu-ray.

Answer 1

Onkyo HT-S990THX - you will be blown away by the sound.  Just add a blu-ray player and you're complete.

http://www.hometheatermag.com/hometheate...

http://www.testfreaks.com/home-theater-s...

Answer 2

Well, first off I'd rather not exactly "recommend" anything I haven't used or looked into extensively, but I'll mention some stuff you can look into yourself.  First off, if you meant a complete set.. including Blu-Ray... finding Blu-Ray bundles is still a little rare, since Blu-Ray is still so new and still developing.. plus it only just recently became the sure victor in the HD format war.  There are a couple recievers made by Sony that'll match with certain Sony Blu-Ray players, and they do meet your subwoofer criteria I think.. here's those links....

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stor...

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stor...

If a Blu-Ray bundle is what you meant, I'd actually recommend letting up and getting a seperate Blu-Ray player and Home Theater system, rather then something bundled together, especially since they're hard to come by. Also, if your lookning for Blu-Ray built-in.. they really don't make those yet and even when they do, I think seperate would be better, do to situations like you mentioned above about your DVD drive.  If your Blu-Ray drive ever starts to go... or if the reciever starts to go (after warranty)... you can replace each component seperately, instead of junking the whole thing.. or instread of adding a new one and having a dead piece of integrated equiptment taking up space. Some of the best equiptment often comes in seperate pieces, because they know the hardcore electronics consumer often likes to mix and match. Many all-in-one packages come with DVD players built in.. but if you get a seperate Blu-Ray player, you can simply use that to play DVDs.  If you didn't mean a complete set including Blu-Ray.. then just completely ingnore this whole last paragraph ;)

If your a really big audio buff, I know Onkyo makes some pretty hardcore looking home theater systems that even support the newer audio codecs that will be on some Blu-Ray discs.... but again, I can't recommend.. only direct... so here's some links...

http://www.us.onkyo.com/prod_class.cfm?c...

Also.. here's a list of seperate best rated recievers and speaker off Newegg and TigerDirect.com...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...

As far as the seperate Blu-Ray player goes... it often seems like a PS3 is the way to go... you get the additional support for file formats like DivX, which other Blu-Ray player don't.. in addition to a card reader to view pictures on your TV, web browsing on your TV via WiFi, and apparently it does Blu-Ray very well.. better then many standalones.  Oh.. I I think I heard something about it playing games as well. ;)  In any case, whichever Blu-Ray player you get, make sure it's firmware upgradable... probably preferably via Wi-Fi... though that really depends on you.

Answer 3

A lot of speakers are plastic like thay are not good sounding Metal is best for good sounding then wood speakers