I am in need of some serious advice. I am a complete noob when it comes to Audio. I'll explain what i have going on right now.
I converted an all in one bose speaker system from 1998 into a 5.1 system about a year ago. What i did is i got rid of the subwoofer and receiver that came with my bose system. I in turn hooked up the 5 double cube speakers to a Yamaha HTR-5840 receiver and a JBL Northridge E series E150P subwoofer.

So i am clearly running some outdated speakers on this system. Is this really a bad set up? Am i missing out on some excellent sound because i am using some speakers from 1998? I don't even know where to start looking for new speakers. How much would i have to spend to get 5 new speakers and where should i look? Any links or advice would be great! Thanks

The short answer is almost anything will be better than your Acoustamass Cubes. Here are a few links to start with of companies that offer moderately priced speaker systems. You may want to replace the sub at the same time with a better subwoofer.

It would help if you gave a price range, size restrictions, planned usage (do you want music to sound as good as possible, or do you want the loudest bang crash possible for your money, or a compromise).



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I would like to spend as little money as possible...i know that is a hard thing to do :cool:

I mostly use my speakers for movies and video games. when it comes to music i have my PC. I am moving to a new apt. and the living room dimensions are 12'x24'. I hope that gives some insight.

I give!!!!! If you want to spend as little money as possible, keep what you have.

I would like to spend as little money as possible...i know that is a hard thing to do :cool:


You would get more help here if you provided how much you are willing to spend.

As little as possible is kind of vague, don't you think?

x-series from av123 are prob among the cheapest that sound good

check out Mission cinema m70 surround speakers(5.0) for $240 from tsto.com
http://www.tsto.com/cgi-bin/tsto.storefront