Hey there, been reading this forum the past couple days, cause i've been looking through lots of different for setups for my dorm room next year. Basically, i'm gonna be running my music through AirTunes, the little Apple program that lets me stream iTunes over the WAN and crap, and then connect the airport express with an optical cable
anywho, i'd like your suggestions on speakers and a receiver. Right now, i would be just fine with a 2.1 system, as its a dorm room, and music is stereo anyway, but i think i'd like a 5.1 or higher system for when i get a house the year after, etc, maybe want surround for movies and whatnot...
moving on, i originally was looking at the Onkyo S790 HTIB package at circuit city, and realized after reading everything here that it would be much better if i spent a lil more money and got a seperate receiver, stereo bookshelf speakers and a sub to round it out, giving much cleaner, punchier, more accurate sound, for close to the same price.
sooo i'm thinking of gettin the Infinity 150s for the speakers, and idk really yet for the sub, maybe the infinity PS-8 to match sound, otherwise i know yamaha has a nice low-end sub i bought for my dad.
my big question is the receiver. yamaha also makes what looks like a sweet one, the 5830, or i guess now the 5930... i like all its options and expandability, and its price. i also like onkyo's offering with the TXSR504B but yeah, its a hundred bucks more... any other suggestions? the sony dg500 looked decent too... im just really not sure about anything haha, and you all seem to know a great deal about it all, i appreciate any suggestions/experience with all of these. onkyo also makes that 303 receiver, and i've never found a good answer to whether the 65 watts per channel matters vs. 100 or whatever with the other receivers... i mean ya, im in a dorm room, but i also can crank it up pretty loud without the RA's gettin on me.
So in conclusion, i'm looking for a setup that will give me wonderful music, occasionally movies or xbox 360, for right now, in 2.1 and has to have an optical input on the receiver end, preferably all for under 500 bucks, tops 550-600 when factoring in speaker wire/connectors.
