New Home theater sound help.

[Andres3605]

I just bought a 37" LCD HDTV and was looking into getting a sorround system to go along with it, I'm in no way audiophile or have large amounts of cash to spend in high end equipment.

At the moment i have my PS 3 and my HDTV Direct tv box connected with HDMI Cables, don't mind using components if i have to, i was looking at several receivers and the possibility of starting with just a 2.1 setup and buy more speakers as my money allows me to.


This is the receiver i was looking at this receiver Onkyo TX-SR505S and some Polk R150 speakers to start, but i would like some advice, im not really that literate iin regards of Dolby/DTS/PCM and such.

I would like some receiver / speaker suggestions with a thigh budged in mind, thanks.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

You can keep the video hooked up directly to the TV and just send audio to the receiver, so no need to worry about getting a receiver that can't handle all your video sources. On the other hand HDMI is the only want to get HD audio formats off your PS3 from Blu-ray discs, but that's no bid deal in the grand scheme of things.

I think what you have picked out would be a decent starter system. The receiver is pretty good so you could certainly grow with that.

For Dolby / DTS / PCM, the Onkyo 505 will handle everything you need it to except for HD audio formats (unless you get a player with multichannel analog output). For a budget system, that receiver will handle everything you need it to. To move up to a receiver that can do multichannel PCM over HDMI (or decode them from a bitstream output from a player), you'd need to spend ~$400 on just the receiver. DD and DTS are going to sound great already, so no need to worry about that at this point.