Surround Sound

[womble2k1]

Hi i think this may of been posted before but i was wondering, what the price and the cheapsest way of setting up speakers in my front room for full surround sound. I am only using the speakers on my tv at the moment, so im am really missing one.
Cheers
Womble

[womble2k1]

Anyone?

[TimJBart]

well the cheapest I would go would be about £300. That would be for an amp and a set of speakers.

If you go to Richer Sounds (http://www.richersounds.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?load=frame) they have a good selection to choose from and they are almost always the cheapest place for this equipment

[kcxdev]

or you can go with an all in one setup like the digitheatre.

[womble2k1]

Alright cheers. I think i might buy one of those £99 setups. Dunno which one yet. Are they any good?

[kcxdev]

make sure it has what you need - amp and/or decoder.

If you have a dvd player with a built in decoder then you can buy a setup with just amp and speakers. If not (ie, your dvd player can output a dd/dts stream, or says is dd/dts compatible) you will need a decoder/amp/speaker combo.

Look at the back of the player and if theres a complete set of phonos (front, rear, center ...) then you have a built in decoder.

[womble2k1]

Right well i'll check my pioneer 444 as thats my christmas pressie, can't wait till the 25th. At the moment I have an LG 4210 but im thinking of selling it.

[womble2k1]

I have just noticed that kcxdev answers most of my questions :D