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Hi everyone...I've been reading the forum for awhile now, but mostly about video related stuff, and it occured to me that I don't know much about the auido side of HT.
Anyway, my concern is this:
I currently live with my parents, but just graduated college, and will be eventually gettting my own place, and setting up my own HT. Right now, my parrents have a pretty good HT that I helped them buy/set up about 4-5 years ago. To me the system sounds really good, but in my case, ignorance might be bliss since I have never listened to a megabuck system.
The system I am currently using has an Onkyo TX-DS777 reciever, with Infinity speakers all around. A pair of RS-5' s for the fronts, a CC-3 for the center, and a pair of QPS-1W' s for the rears, and a BU-120 sub. I realize that these model numbers might not mean much to you guys since they are from the last millenium, but maybe some of you are familiar with them. The reciever was around a grand, and the total system was about $2500 give or take. I beilive I like the sound of my system better that my friend's Bose Lifestyle system, but I wonder how it compares to a setup with higher end equipment.
Would a reciever on the order of 3k-4k make a huge difference? Or would I not notice a big gain in overall sound quality until I stepped up to a component preamp/poweramp getup?
On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the cheapest
Anyway, my concern is this:
I currently live with my parents, but just graduated college, and will be eventually gettting my own place, and setting up my own HT. Right now, my parrents have a pretty good HT that I helped them buy/set up about 4-5 years ago. To me the system sounds really good, but in my case, ignorance might be bliss since I have never listened to a megabuck system.
The system I am currently using has an Onkyo TX-DS777 reciever, with Infinity speakers all around. A pair of RS-5' s for the fronts, a CC-3 for the center, and a pair of QPS-1W' s for the rears, and a BU-120 sub. I realize that these model numbers might not mean much to you guys since they are from the last millenium, but maybe some of you are familiar with them. The reciever was around a grand, and the total system was about $2500 give or take. I beilive I like the sound of my system better that my friend's Bose Lifestyle system, but I wonder how it compares to a setup with higher end equipment.
Would a reciever on the order of 3k-4k make a huge difference? Or would I not notice a big gain in overall sound quality until I stepped up to a component preamp/poweramp getup?
On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the cheapest