Best surround sound system?

Question

whats the best surround sound system money can buy?

Answer 1

The best does not come as a, "system". The best is custom engineered and utilizes hardware from multiple companies. The room is custom designed for optimum acoustics, speakers are custom designed and calibrated, every aspect is engineered. The cost can run into the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. That's how you get the "best money can buy". Even in this level of system it is still subjective as to what is "best" so ultimately it is impossible to say that any one system is truly the best money can buy.



If you didn't realize the scope of what you were asking and thought $1000 ~ $1500 would be the top and you thought all systems came in the form on an HTiB then it might be a little easier to define what is the best. In that range, the HTiB with the best ratings would be the Onkyo. It's still not very good but for an HTiB it's perhaps better than most. Stepping up a notch to buying individual components it is very subjective especially with speakers. In that level you can spend a few thousand dollars carefully and end up with something that isn't all that bad.



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Answer 2

Yamaha NS-SP1800BL is great value at around 100 dollars. They work great and sound amazing for small speakers. The sub is has its own volume control and I have yet to turn it past a quarter of the way up because the thumping, clear base shakes the house fairly well. The only issues with this system are minor. First the speaker wire is only about a 24 gauge, which for small rooms is perfectly fine. On a positive note there is 100ft of this wire included. The only other minor problem is they are 6 ohm speakers. Most receivers will have an option for running this so it's a fairly simple fix.

Answer 3

First of all, Bose is pure over-priced crap.



Next, there is no one 'best' system. It also depends a lot on how much money you will be spending. You can have a very nice 5.1 system for as little as $500, or you could build a major home theater room in your home, where the A/V gear alone is $100,000.



If you're closer to the $500 than to the $100,000, then there are good brands to choose from, that include electronics from Pioneer, Yamaha, Harman Kardon and Denon, to name but four. In speakers, you would do best by sticking to companies which specialise in speakers, such as Infinity, Polk, JBL, and Klipsch, again, to name but four.

Answer 4

Depends on the size of the room.

But i dont recommend large speakers in any case. Their sound travels further than one expects, and causes neighbour problems.

The problem with surround systems is that the system is largely unused, because very few movies are made for 5.1 or 7.1 channels, and largely most games are not dolby ready. Which is a bigger problem.



So if you have money to spend, surely go for a 5.1 or 7.1 surround system.

Try the bose. I thought the sony ones werent good. I have a polk audio 5.1 with a denon. Depending on your budget, you will need to shell out for the 6 speakers in the setup($1500 onwards) and an additional $500 for the amp. I have a denon. But there's also the yamaha amps. Needless to say, you have some experimenting to do for your amp/speaker combination depending on your budget.



But if you are looking at computer surround speakers, some of them, creative for example, are surprisingly good. But i would go for the bose companion series for the kick you get out of them .

Answer 5

You could easily spend over £500,000 on a top of the range surround sound setup.