May 1, 200618 yr Honestly speaking, I'd go for the 5.1 surround sound reciever...probably the one Jedi pointed you at, as it's definately a good brand and model, buy a decent 100watt+ powered subwoofer, and build my own speaker setup...you get better speakers cheaper by scrounging the yard sales and pawn shops for single or double cone setups with decent wattage, and building your own tower/stack boxes for them, and doing the internal wiring yourself than you get buying premades... I've got a set for mains that I built off three 10" cones off 100 watt "main channel" shelf system speakers per stack box, with sattellights I made with dual 8" cones each off the same sort of system...picked up all these speakers cheap as fuck at pawnshops because the shelf system they came with was trashed, and mounted them in homedone cases, then actually used a car amp and a PC PSU to convert 120AC to 12VDC for it in each speaker (actually, to be honest, I pulled the 200 watt amp out of my Camry and replaced it with a 400 watt, then took that 200 watt, desoldered it, after marking all parts and taking pics, went down to radio shack, and basically ran 4 copies of the breadboard circuit off with a breadboarding kit, and built my amps to be mounted internally in each speaker, so the two sattellite 2-speaker babies have 200 watts, the center speaker 2 speaker side-by-side box has 200 watts, and the "mains" have 300 watts each, all functioning as if they were designed as powered speakers...so I deliver 100 watts to each cone I have running, off a little 50/250 Magnaxvox home theater 5.1 surround sound setup with TiVO and DVD-R I picked up for $150....I went less than $500 in, all told, and ended up with wattage that lets me play my music INSIDE so loudly that I can hear it OUTSIDE clearly while mowing the lawn.)
May 1, 200618 yr Author PsychoBud']Honestly speaking, I'd go for the 5.1 surround sound reciever...probably the one Jedi pointed you at, as it's definately a good brand and model, buy a decent 100watt+ powered subwoofer, and build my own speaker setup...you get better speakers cheaper by scrounging the yard sales and pawn shops for single or double cone setups with decent wattage, and building your own tower/stack boxes for them, and doing the internal wiring yourself than you get buying premades... I've got a set for mains that I built off three 10" cones off 100 watt "main channel" shelf system speakers per stack box, with sattellights I made with dual 8" cones each off the same sort of system...picked up all these speakers cheap as fuck at pawnshops because the shelf system they came with was trashed, and mounted them in homedone cases, then actually used a car amp and a PC PSU to convert 120AC to 12VDC for it in each speaker (actually, to be honest, I pulled the 200 watt amp out of my Camry and replaced it with a 400 watt, then took that 200 watt, desoldered it, after marking all parts and taking pics, went down to radio shack, and basically ran 4 copies of the breadboard circuit off with a breadboarding kit, and built my amps to be mounted internally in each speaker, so the two sattellite 2-speaker babies have 200 watts, the center speaker 2 speaker side-by-side box has 200 watts, and the "mains" have 300 watts each, all functioning as if they were designed as powered speakers...so I deliver 100 watts to each cone I have running, off a little 50/250 Magnaxvox home theater 5.1 surround sound setup with TiVO and DVD-R I picked up for $150....I went less than $500 in, all told, and ended up with wattage that lets me play my music INSIDE so loudly that I can hear it OUTSIDE clearly while mowing the lawn.) i hate dealing with all of that shit, beacse you have to build the box, then you gotta wire it, then you gotta make sure you got the right amp wattage...its just a pain. so if i get a 700 watt 7.1 surround reciever, then would i have to have an amp to use a set of 500 watt speakers? i dunno if i can do all that amp shit, thats a lot of fucking wires and i dont know what hooks up to what.
May 1, 200618 yr right now i use http://www.athenaspeakers.com/modelASB1.htm 2 in front 2 in back with a http://www.athenaspeakers.com/modelASC1.htm center channel, I cant find a link for the Sub. and a http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009L3OF/103-1644542-6450206?v=glance&n=172282 reciever. I got tihs setup about 2 years ago and i have had no problems at all. Im not sure what pricing is like now, but im sure you would be able to get something like this setup for your price range.
May 1, 200618 yr i hate dealing with all of that shit, beacse you have to build the box, then you gotta wire it, then you gotta make sure you got the right amp wattage...its just a pain. so if i get a 700 watt 7.1 surround reciever, then would i have to have an amp to use a set of 500 watt speakers? i dunno if i can do all that amp shit, thats a lot of fucking wires and i dont know what hooks up to what. No, you wouldn't need an amp to use the speakers, but to get full performance out of them, you would need one. And if you do the wiring internally for the speakers, it's not hard...all I did was take a premade circuitboard out of a car amp, mark all components down, trace a template, copy it onto sandwitch board, and make "cloned boards" for each speaker, screw it to the back of the speaker boxes, and run what HAD been the solder points to the RCA jacks for 2 speakers direct to the cones I'd installed, and mounted clip style input feeds in place of the old RCA input jack, and mounted them through the back of the box. The only hard part is makign certain you wire everything in phase properly.
May 1, 200618 yr Author PsychoBud']No, you wouldn't need an amp to use the speakers, but to get full performance out of them, you would need one. And if you do the wiring internally for the speakers, it's not hard...all I did was take a premade circuitboard out of a car amp, mark all components down, trace a template, copy it onto sandwitch board, and make "cloned boards" for each speaker, screw it to the back of the speaker boxes, and run what HAD been the solder points to the RCA jacks for 2 speakers direct to the cones I'd installed, and mounted clip style input feeds in place of the old RCA input jack, and mounted them through the back of the box. The only hard part is makign certain you wire everything in phase properly. i have no idea what you just said lol. its probably gonna be a while before i get the go ahead from my parents to start buying shit. but ill still be looking.
