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Home Cinema relative spend - receiver v. speakers

  • 25-09-2011 5:54pm
    #1
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭


    So I'm starting from scratch and looking for a 5.1 Home Cinema system.

    Say I was looking at a receiver costing €350 (e.g. Onkyo 509), how much should I be spending on the speakers?

    I know that for a given receiver there would be a limit to how much you should spend on speakers because it would be ludicrous for example to spend €350 on a receiver and €2,000 on speakers but is there a ballpark relationship on how much to spend on one compared to the other?


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  • #2
    Dermondo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭Dermondo


    coylemj wrote: »
    So I'm starting from scratch and looking for a 5.1 Home Cinema system.

    Say I was looking at a receiver costing €350 (e.g. Onkyo 509), how much should I be spending on the speakers?

    I know that for a given receiver there would be a limit to how much you should spend on speakers because it would be ludicrous for example to spend €350 on a receiver and €2,000 on speakers but is there a ballpark relationship on how much to spend on one compared to the other?

    Hi, there is no fast & hard rule about this and I would recommend spending around the same on the speakers but no less, just to note maybe spending 10% of your system cost on some decent cabling would also keep your system perfoming at a good level, hope this helps.


  • #3
    M00lers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭M00lers


    It's only my opinion but I'd spend most of my budget on the speakers. If you buy good speakers they should see you through many amp upgrades.

    Take for example you buy some small lifestyle style speakers and an amp. Five years pass, and you decide to upgrade your amp to the latest one with all the latest bells and whistles that you "need" and when you plug it in it sounds very similar, because the weakest link is your speakers. But if you have good/great speakers to begin with each upgrade in source and amplifcation should yield good results because your speakers kick-ass.


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