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Setting up a home theatre system with my rig as the centre.

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paulw86

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Dell 2405FPW will be the monitor with eVGA 7800GT
I guess if I want good tv quality I'd need a tv tuner card as well
Also I need suggestions of a good set of 5.1 speakers and a sound card to pair with it
Thanks guys, any advice will be appreciated.
 
What kind of budget are you thinking about?

For speakers some ballpark options would be

~$50 Logitech x-530
~$100 Logitech z-5300s
~$200 Logitech z-5500s
~$300 Klipsch Promedia Ultra
~$400 Onkyo HTIB
over that, putting together some different parts of your choice

For soundcard, it depends on what your source material is.

If it doesn't include gaming, a Chaintech AV-710 will do a good job for music and will pass digital for speaker sets that have that type of input.

For gaming too, an A2zs for about $50AR or a cheaper A2value for about $35AR are good bets.

If you're going with one of the >$200 options, you might want to think about then upping the soundcard budget to an X-Fi.
 
I'll be mostly watching movies, some music and occasionally games. Budget for speakers would be ~$300, but of course if say the ~$200 z-5500s is better value for the money I'd go for that. I know that the Klipsch set is missing a digital decoder; what's that and how important is it?

Oh btw, yoyo you no longer look the same as your avatar, shame *coughcough*
 
Whether the Promedias or other sets are worth it over the z-5500s will depend on who you ask. Although not the ideal method, if you can find some place to demo the sets that would give you at least some idea of the differences.

As for the digital decoder, you should be able to decode DD streams with most soundcards so having the decoder built into the speakers doesn't seem to be a big benefit. A decent soundcard may even do a better job at producing a good analog output than the output of the z-5500's decoder.
The decoder would come in handy if you wanted to connect something to the set that had a 5.1 digital output like an external DVD player, a satellite tv box, etc.

Yeah, I changed the avatar about a week ago for fun.
 
oh man!
the Klipsch ultra 5.1 goes for $432 +14% tax = $492US in Canada!! Holy sweet jesus mother love of god. THe Logitech set goes for $295 +14%tax = $336US!!
MAN..for the price of my z5500 you guys can buy a Klipsch ultra 5.1...wth I envy you guys
 
Originally posted by: paulw86
i call for ebay >_>
hey yoyo, read this auction and tell me whether you think he's lying
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I'm supposed to read all that? I don't think you know how lazy I am. Can you give me some cliffs?

EDIT: ok, I was bored.

Is having a properly cooled amp good? Yes.

Did Klipsch do a substandard job designing a method of cooling their sub amps in the promedias? Maybe.

Would active cooling prolong the life of these? Maybe.

What happens if they break? You're screwed.
 
oh sorry I meant to scan through it (sorry I thought we're all very lazy and you'd get what I mean 😛)
so as to say, IF that guy really did install a cooler properly, it should MaYBe prolong the life of the amp?
ah man, confused
so you're saying that this guy might be just bsing about the promedia's amp and the amp CouLD be fine fresh out of box?
 
Originally posted by: paulw86
oh sorry I meant to scan through it (sorry I thought we're all very lazy and you'd get what I mean 😛)
so as to say, IF that guy really did install a cooler properly, it should MaYBe prolong the life of the amp?
ah man, confused
so you're saying that this guy might be just bsing about the promedia's amp and the amp CouLD be fine fresh out of box?
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Well all the promedia amps besides his and ones that other people have modded come without those fans. After a few years (and in some cases right away) some people experience problems with their promedias (and other "high end" computer speakers from Logitech etc).

Sometimes it's a fuse, sometimes the driver itself, sometimes the amp, sometimes the control pod. I don't know the numbers, but if he has knowledge that a good portion of the failures are amp failures due to overheating of specific components then these may help his sets have a better chance of lasting longer.

On the down side the extra cooling might not really help and there's a 100% chance now that the warranty is gone.

Maybe this guy has more info on failure rates and what specifically tends to go wrong in most sets.
 
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