Comments on: Buying Surround Sound For Christmas, Any Suggestions?

By: IdiotWin

IdiotWin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:39:00 +0000

They change every year, something that someone on here has, is probably no longer made. Pick an amount of $$, then go to Circuit City or equivalent and use your ears to determine the best sound. Bring an audio disc that you are familiar with, to try it out.

By: txc142

txc142 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:27:01 +0000

yeah buy a magazine, in uk we got one called what hifi, you must have somthing like that over where you are, failing that search the web for (what hi-fi) sorry if that is no help and a complete waist of your time, Toxic

By: RAUL M

RAUL M — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:04:49 +0000

Well girl circuit city has a surround sound system by Onkyo.Its 7.1 its pretty good its like $499.It has 1000watts of sound.I got an Onkyo system and i like it.It gets really loud while watching movies.The only thing it did not come with was a DVD player.So i recommend you buy a DVD player that has up-conversion.Lg,Samsung and Sony got some.So check them out.Well worst case scenario he can return it.

By: Jason C

Jason C — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:18:11 +0000

I have an Onkyo HT-S780. It is a 7.1 speaker setup and it sounds pretty good. If 7.1 is too much than you can hook it up in 5.1 also. I paid $350 for it a year ago from Circuit City. IMHO it sounds just as good if not better than some HTiB’s that cost $1000. You can hook up your tv, dvd, vcr, xbox, ps2/3, mp3 player, etc. to it. This is the version without a dvd player included, but the next step up does include one.
One of the things I like about this system is that I can upgrade my speakers, which I have been doing slowly. The system comes with 18 guage wire (pretty small) so I have also upgraded to a Monster subwoofer cable and 12 guage speaker wire which does provide better audio quality.
We have an 15′ by 22′ living room and this system does a great job of filling it. It supports the most common sound formats like Dolby Digital EX, DTS (Discrete ES), Pro-Logic IIx, etc. which will produce excellent sound from all his favorite movies.
This system definitely isn’t the crappy $100 version and certainly doesn’t cost $1000. I speak of this particular system because I own it and I know it sounds great for the price. Other good HTiB’s to look at would be Yamaha, Denon and Pioneer. Good Luck!