Cheep Recievers/amps

[Will404]

I wanna build my own speackers, but to do this would need a reciever with amp built in. I was looking @ ebay, and wondered if this looked any good.

Was planning on slowly building 5 speackers, and a sub, so looking for 5.1 reciever

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-5-1-Ampli...#ht_500wt_1182

or

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SONY-STRK880-A...#ht_543wt_1165

*not looking at over £40~45

[shaithis]

Both will do the job you want them to but be careful with eBay, after looking at the second amp I then checked Richer Sounds

[Funkstar]

I would hazzard a guess that both of those will have a reserve that is way above what you are looking to spend.

The second one probably has a reserve of at least £150, i.e. very close to the Buy It Now price.

[Zak33]

Funk is right...those will fetch more than £50 I think

[Will404]

, best start saving for the richer sounds one. Thx all

Edit: £39 for a HDMI cable!!! I suppose they make all there money for selling these alongside the recievers, ect.

[Funkstar]

I agree, that is just silly! They are all branded though, not that I'm making excuses.

Although, their speaker cable is supposed to be very good for the money (though I will never advocate spending more than a couple of quid a meter).

Richer Sounds isn't as good as it used to be for bargains, mainly because many places have caught up, but there are still a few gems. What has improved is their range and availability though.

[Skinleech]

HDMI is a pre digital cable, so really you don't need to be spending that amount on one. £10-£15 should be sufficient in most cases, though a high quality cable is advisable for long distances.

RS did me a deal on cable recently - I was getting 25m @ £2.50 per m but they didn't have any left in stock. They suggested the slightly more expensive bi-wire cable, which I'd only need 1/2 as much of, and then cut the wrong cable - 12.5m of Bi-wire cable at £5 per m, so the same price as I was originally going to pay. However, the bloke was pretty decent and only charged me £4 per m for 12m of cable.

[shaithis]

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1m-Sc...ends-v13B-Spec

Next time you place an oder with scan...

[Stoo]

speaking of hdmi cables..

In the local av shop today, a 1m wireworld HDMI cable... £200.

Yep, two hundred.

I nearly fell off my perch!

[Funkstar]

Originally Posted by Stoo

I nearly fell off my perch!

Why were you sitting/standing on a fish?

/gets coat

[BUFF]

don't carp about it ...

gets up to join him

[Stoo]

*golfclap*

very good..

[peterb]

Originally Posted by Stoo

speaking of hdmi cables..

In the local av shop today, a 1m wireworld HDMI cable... £200.

Yep, two hundred.

I nearly fell off my perch!

That would be designed for use with a tuna.

[Stoo]

I was hoping for at least one dead parrot sketch reference

[Andehh]

http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk/catal...cable-15m.html

Cheap as chips & does the job perfectly well for me.


As for buying a receiver/amp, have a look through the avforums classified. You will need one a couple year old to fit the budget but you'll find most will do the job without too much fuss!

http://www.avforums.com/forums/ampli...ified-adverts/

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by Andehh

http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk/catal...cable-15m.html

Cheap as chips & does the job perfectly well for me.

Yup, that's the one I have, I bought 2 of the hdmi to hdmi, and one dvi to hdmi, fantastic cables

The things I heard when they were trying to sell those silly priced cables to some people with more money than sense - "more intense colours", "deeper blacks", "cleaner whites", "smoother video", "less noise"...

I would have said something, but the guy clearly wanted "the best", and was on the phone anyway..

People obviously don't get that it's a standards compliant thing, and there will be zero difference between any cable meeting the relevent HDMI spec..

Ho hum.