Wanted : Amp and speakers for cinema system

[tthe Mackem]

Hi All,
I'm a newbie so please bare with me.
I'm after an 5.1/ 7.1 Amplifier (£150.00 or so) and some speakers £50.00 (Preferably small cube type) for my developing home cinema system. Unfortunately, my budget is only delivered. I have a Sony blu ray player (BDPS1) so anything that would complement that would be perfect. Would prefer HDMI connections if it's possible. The amp would need too power my Linn Helix speakers for audio purposes. Hope I'm not asking the impossible!

Many thanks

Matt

Location: Darlington, England
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[rowlandhills]

With a budget of only £200, I'd probably look to spend £150 on an amp and £50 on a centre speaker, leaving surrounds and subwoofer for another day. This is because the majority of audio information comes through the centre speaker, including pretty much all dialogue. You might even want to look at getting an amp which supports a "phantom centre" via your existing speakers, if they're positioned fairly evenly around your screen.

There's an Onkyo TX-SR674E which has 2 HDMI inputs, one HDMI output for £160 in the forums here: http://www.avforums.com/forums/ampli...-reciever.html

[nisnos]

I have a champagne gold denon 1907 amp
5 panasonic satelites ( nothing special but do a very good job)
tannoy efx active sub woofer.

all speadkers are silver - you can have the lot for your £200 budget.

[tthe Mackem]

Hi, Thanks for the response. I take on board your comments. The Onkyo looks very good and should do a job. Does anybody out there have a decent set of surround sound speakers for around the £50.00 mark?