Cheap & cheerful Or cheap & nasty ? !!

Betsy Og

for €100 I got a HE system from Aldi - i.e. a DVD player, 5 speakers and sub-woofer. Combined with the €380 Lidl projector I'm in business.

Seems to work quite well and I'm confident I'll get to route laptop sound and media player sound through it (got picture from both through projector before). The make is Tevion, havent the spec on me.

I have 2 better speakers, Warfdale, that I got before for playing old stereo in adjoining room (mainly radio, Off the Ball on Newstalk, or a match thats televised, the small Aldi speakers would probably do for that job).

I take it these Warfdale speakers should work to improve the sound, or is it the DVD player unit that dictates the power output and there's no point in adding better speakers???? Of the 5 speakers which are the best 2 to replace (FL, BL, FR, FL and Centre), or could you "unbalance" the whole thing by adding in a mish mash of speakers.

Re speaker wire, need to buy more to get the speakers to permanent locations, can you just tape ends together or are proper joiners recommended?

Thanks to all, and while I know most people here would be really into this and be appalled at the lack of quality, maybe its a message of hope for those that want to get going without spending a fortune.

Betsy Og

ah lads, 98 views and not one comment!!

Start us off there with - Ya bleedin cheapskate, my granny's motorised wheelchair has a better system than that !!

:D

dharn

ill take you out of your misery ya cheapscate !! but to answer your question i would doubt that the amp in your 5.1 would drive the wharfedales very well but you could try replacing the front left and right start off at low volume build it up and see how it goes but at least get some decent speaker wire and join it with joiners