My roommate and I just bought a nice 65" 1080p TV and need a 5.1 system to go with it. We have a budget of about $1500-$2000. He gets accomodations through his work on Polk and Onkyo, about 50% off on both. So we were thinking along the lines of Polk speakers and an Onkyo receiver. I just have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to power amps/pre-amps. Also, any suggestions on a sub?
I'm new to home audio. I've grown up around live audio and have a recording studio, so I have some idea what I'm doing when it comes to accoustics, but that's about it. Haha.

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anybody ever investigate the effects of the lighting in a listening enviorment? How the level of light, the COLOR temperature of the light has an effect on how you perceive the sound. Lotsa blue in the light(high color temp), or lotsa red (low color temp) effects moods, and perception, at home and work. Why don't it effect what you THINK you hear or don't hear.

Aloha,

As you know, Big Mike and I will have a non-commercial demo suite at "The High End Show" at CES in a couple of weeks.

Our "company" is NFS Audio, which stands for "Not For Sale" Audio.

Our official motto is "Beneficium Clementia."

In keeping with our misson, we've "discovered" two toe-curlingly good tweaks that we will be freely sharing with all our audiophile brethren.

Initially, we had actually invented a new uber "Tice Clock" like deivice, only much much better. In fact, it made the Machina Dynamica stuff sound like a placebo!

Hi,

First off let me state that I design PA systems for a living so im very skeptical about any of this cable and interconnet stuff. Having said that the following has just happened to me

1 - Tried a $250 interconnect between CD and amp instead of my Radio shack $20 Monster and the system performance dipped, so back to the Radio Shack cable.

2 - Tried a $150 pair of speaker interconnects over my $10 Radio shack monster zip cables, these totally changed the performance of my system for the better.