jonnyholywoodni
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Hi there
This is my first post, though I have been reading the forum for advice for a few years now. I have bitten by the home cinema bug and would like some advice and opinions on my set up and what to buy next but on a tight budget of up to £100.
Until recently I had been using an old Philips Home Theater in a Box that was about 10 years old. It sounded pretty bad and I had always wanted to upgrade but I don't earn much money and everything decent all looked so expensive.
After Christmas I spotted an amp nearby on gumtree and decided I would start trying to build a budget and hopefully decent system from ebay, gumtree and second hand. Since then I have picked up a few bargains and I have a basic set up.
TV: Panasonic 42" plasma
Amp: Yamaha RX-V361 - £50 off gumtree but no HDMI
Fronts: Morduant Short Mezzo 1 - £60 off ebay
Centre: Monitor Audio Vector V20 - £35 ex-display Richer Sounds
Rears: Mission Cyrus 780 -£40 off ebay
Optical cable to Sky HD box: QED performance - already owned
Optical cable to Playstation 3 (Blu-Ray): Profigold - £6 off ebay
Speaker cable: Cambridge Audio Symphony 200 - £1.99 per metre Richer Sounds
My room is a about 16' x 20' and it has a real wood floor.
At the moment I dont have a subwoofer and I have been trawling ebay and gumtree and second hand shops for ages for a good deal. The bloke who sold me the Mezzo 1 speakers also has a Morduant Short Genie 409W subwoofer that he wants me to make him an offer on it. I am very tempted and was thinking of offering around £70. Does anyone think this would be the a good idea for my next purchase? Would the fact its downwards firing onto a wooden floor mean the sound would be bad?
Other than the sub what do you think of my set up? My amp is very budget and maybe I need something more powerful as my next purchase? Does such a cheap amp mean my speakers aren't getting the juice they need to perform well? What about the centre? I added this last and i'm not totally sure its an improvement over just having the 2 x Mezzo 1s upfront and no centre. They sounded lovely on their own and I realise you are supposed to have the same make of centre as the fronts but I havent been able to source a cheap Morduant Short centre yet and I don't know if this should be my next purchase?
What about cables? It would be cheaper to upgrade these as my next purchase. Should I try to get some QED speaker cable off ebay 2nd hand or a better optical cable than my profigold one? Maybe that would be a waste if I should upgrade my amp to HDMI? I've spotted this one for example
Denon AVR-1513 - £99.95 @ RicherSounds (instore) £89.95 If you join Richer Sounds VIP Lounge, link in comments - Hot UK Deals
Any advice or help or opinions would be very welcome.
Thanks
Jonny
This is my first post, though I have been reading the forum for advice for a few years now. I have bitten by the home cinema bug and would like some advice and opinions on my set up and what to buy next but on a tight budget of up to £100.
Until recently I had been using an old Philips Home Theater in a Box that was about 10 years old. It sounded pretty bad and I had always wanted to upgrade but I don't earn much money and everything decent all looked so expensive.
After Christmas I spotted an amp nearby on gumtree and decided I would start trying to build a budget and hopefully decent system from ebay, gumtree and second hand. Since then I have picked up a few bargains and I have a basic set up.
TV: Panasonic 42" plasma
Amp: Yamaha RX-V361 - £50 off gumtree but no HDMI
Fronts: Morduant Short Mezzo 1 - £60 off ebay
Centre: Monitor Audio Vector V20 - £35 ex-display Richer Sounds
Rears: Mission Cyrus 780 -£40 off ebay
Optical cable to Sky HD box: QED performance - already owned
Optical cable to Playstation 3 (Blu-Ray): Profigold - £6 off ebay
Speaker cable: Cambridge Audio Symphony 200 - £1.99 per metre Richer Sounds
My room is a about 16' x 20' and it has a real wood floor.
At the moment I dont have a subwoofer and I have been trawling ebay and gumtree and second hand shops for ages for a good deal. The bloke who sold me the Mezzo 1 speakers also has a Morduant Short Genie 409W subwoofer that he wants me to make him an offer on it. I am very tempted and was thinking of offering around £70. Does anyone think this would be the a good idea for my next purchase? Would the fact its downwards firing onto a wooden floor mean the sound would be bad?
Other than the sub what do you think of my set up? My amp is very budget and maybe I need something more powerful as my next purchase? Does such a cheap amp mean my speakers aren't getting the juice they need to perform well? What about the centre? I added this last and i'm not totally sure its an improvement over just having the 2 x Mezzo 1s upfront and no centre. They sounded lovely on their own and I realise you are supposed to have the same make of centre as the fronts but I havent been able to source a cheap Morduant Short centre yet and I don't know if this should be my next purchase?
What about cables? It would be cheaper to upgrade these as my next purchase. Should I try to get some QED speaker cable off ebay 2nd hand or a better optical cable than my profigold one? Maybe that would be a waste if I should upgrade my amp to HDMI? I've spotted this one for example
Denon AVR-1513 - £99.95 @ RicherSounds (instore) £89.95 If you join Richer Sounds VIP Lounge, link in comments - Hot UK Deals
Any advice or help or opinions would be very welcome.
Thanks
Jonny