Smackre

The speakers in my TV went to the craper and it sounds like crap. So i wanna buy a cheap home theater system. It only has to sound good. Not amazing. only need 2 speakers as long as it sounds half decent. Lemme know what you guys suggest.

brandon11983

Price range? A home theater system is comprised of more than 2 speakers. Tolerable sound can be had from a $500 home theater in a box system. Check out the Yamaha YHT-540, I think they still make that one. You get a real receiver with some real power that you can actually use to drive some real read: big speakers when you outgrow those supplied with the system. You get speakers bigger than those with most other systems, and a decent DVD player.

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fhqwhgads

Why not just go the cheap route and pick up some PC speakers, and plug those into the back of your television?

You can get an adapter at Radio Shack that will convert the headphone type plug on the speakers to a RCA jack.

I prolly won't sound great, but it's cheap and it'll do.

viper11885

If you take the PC speaker route, take a look at the Logitech speakers. They come with a free adapter and are pretty nice speakers.

shakran

Ahh c'mon. Most people are not audiophiles and don't have trained ears. To most people a $500 stereo system sounds frikking awesome, especially compared to TV speakers.

$250 buys you a decent receiver.

$250 buys you OK speakers.

But to most people, decent reciever + OK speakers is virtually indistinguishable from the $10,000 rig the neighborhood audiophile has.

brandon11983

Those poor bastards.

Please note the $500 HTIB in my post.

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shakran

I saw it, but my point was that you called it tolerable. While it may only be tolerable to you or me, because we're both audio freaks, to the average joe it'll sound awesome.

Especailly when you consider the fact that the average joe thinks the ideal EQ setting is full bass (with superbass and whatever other bass boost is available turned on and all the way up) and maybe 3/4 treble. That's the extent of their idea of good audio (which is fine - if they like the sound and enjoy it, that's all that matters.). All I was saying was, don't call it tolerable without qualifying that statement with a "to an audiophile" disclaimer

Smackre

i took a pair of speakers from my second computer and riged up a adapter to take RCA to what ever u call the audio port on computers with black tape and all..it looks real profesion...but it gets the job done. Thanks for the info

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brandon11983

I hate EQ's. They usually end up looking like smiley faces anyway.

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jujueye

Personally, I liked brandon's thinking with the updgradable system. It will give reasonable sound without going nuts, plus had the DVD player built in. As no price was mentioned, it was a good shot in the dark. Nuthin' wrong with that! At least his suggestion didn't use words such as "separates" or "Krell" or "Theta"....hahaha......

brandon11983

Actually juju, what makes that system nicer than most is that it has a separate DVD player. You get an actual receiver and an actual DVD player. None of that all in one chassis crap.

And boy was I ever wantin to break loose with the dirty words "Parasound," "Naim," or "Lexicon"... maybe next time.

*edit* upon being pointed out by juju... the YHT-540 is $599, but I'm not certain that its still in production.

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Confederate

what I did, is bought a logitech 5.1 system, z-640 I believe $60 new from newegg.com, and it comes with an adapter to hook it up to your TV, this may be a cheap and reasonable alternative