Advice for a low budget 2.1 system?

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

I'll shortly be picking up a Samsung 50" DLP rear projection. I'm looking for a basic 2.1 setup for the living room that will get me by until I build my house in early 2009. The house will have a dedicated movie room so I'm not looking to do anything other than a small setup for now since it won't be used in the movie room later. I'll start with a clean slate on the HT room, so the TV, speakers, receiver, all of that will not be going in the movie room.

I'm down to the following:

I need a 2.1 receiver (or a 2 channel with subwoofer signal out).

I need 2 bookshelf/tower speakers for L/R.

I need the receiver to be able to produce sound from TV/DVD. CD's can be played through my DVD player.

I'd like to have HDMI so that I can run 1 wire instead of 2 (tv is HDMI ready).

If not, optical would be just as good.

If not, oh well.

Budget would be $350 tops for receiver and speakers. The more I can get from PE, the nicer it would be since I have to get wire, and subwoofer (see below) there.

I have been looking at this receiver, but am not sure how to get the subwoofer to work with both DVD & TV, since there's no dedicated sub out.

I want a 10" dayton powered sub, and for $100 shipped I'll probably go ahead and get it, but this isn't part of the $350 budget.

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[cgndhhh 10+ year member]

if you've got a little carpentry skills you could try some DIY bookshelf speakers and get all ur parts from PE. I know there is a thread if you search that's got a link to a site where u can get parts list and instructions for some nice budget book shelf speakers.

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

Nah, no DIY this time around. I'm so burnt out right now on installing (thank the car) that I don't even want to touch DIY for another year. lol.

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

Nah, no DIY this time around. I'm so burnt out right now on installing (thank the car) that I don't even want to touch DIY for another year. lol.

But you won't be touching CAR diy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Cabinets will take no more than a good 1 days worth of work (excluding finishing) and you'll be left with a much better product for the price //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Edit: Take a look at Zaph's site, lots of good CHEAP and easy projects there...

http://www.zaphaudio.com/ZBM4.html

http://www.zaphaudio.com/BAMTM.html

Or for even more simplicity, full range: http://www.zaphaudio.com/audio-speaker18.html

You will need a steep crossover for that last one, and don't expect it to be extremely loud, but definitely acceptable..

 

[VQ35max 10+ year member]

I'm planning on doing the BAMTM soon, should be fun. Gonna pair that with my IDQ15 taking care of the low-end, should sound great.

Go DIY, at your budget it's gonna be almost impossible to get quality off-the-shelf speakers.

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Make a pair of BIB's. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

since your looking to cheap out build these //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

http://home.hawaii.rr.com/sanaka/AudioDIY/DHT/DHT.html

the satelites for the 2 bookshelfs. could build the MTM, but since this is just temp the satelites would probably be a better option.

for a reciever you could buy a Harmon Kardon 5.1 reciever ( i got mine for 230 bucks ) and then reuse it in the new house. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

going with Aperion 422 LR's.

30-day trial with free shipping back. 10 year warranty. 1 year "trade up" program. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

http://www.aperionaudio.com/product/Intimus-422-LR-Satellite-Speaker,7,20,6.aspx

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I'd be very surprised if they make it even half of that 10-year period...

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I would figure they would be pretty good speakers (the aperions).

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I don't see how they're making money on $100/ea., unless there's major compromises in the crossover and enclosures...

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

I'd be very surprised if they make it even half of that 10-year period...

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I missed the JimJ insight.

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

I don't see how they're making money on $100/ea., unless there's major compromises in the crossover and enclosures...

Those were my thoughts, probably 10 dollars in parts //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Those were my thoughts, probably 10 dollars in parts //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Probably less than that if you aren't including the drivers.

And, probably not much more than that if you are including the drivers.

 

[canadapettit 10+ year member]

 

I have been looking at this receiver, but am not sure how to get the subwoofer to work with both DVD & TV, since there's no dedicated sub out.

 

 

You can hook a sub up to that receiver. I have one sitting in my showroom w/ a JBL powered 10 hooked up to it. All you have to do is hook the sub up to the record out for it to get signal. Now i know that its not a sub out but it still works fine here