Home Cinema: All-in-on vs. seperates

Dr. Nick

I have my sitting room wired for a decent system and will take the plunge this autumn/winter.

Being a beginner in this sphere, I thought a high-end all-in-one might be enough, but can stretch to seperate AV receiver and speakers.

Any opinions on whether a good all-in-one can be as good as seperates?

eddiem74

Depends on your budget, and how much we are talking you would stretch? I would say seperates would nearly always we be better than an all-in-one, plus you already have the wiring in place for seperates.

Zonda999

It can be as good but that would be an expensive all in one, around the same price as separates really so go with the separates probably..

Harrocks

Bought out of the box set ups down throught the years went the seperates route last year amp and speakers.Conclusion should have went this way years ago all the money i wasted on out of the box all in ones.

dixiefly

Harrocks wrote: »

Bought out of the box set ups down throught the years went the seperates route last year amp and speakers.Conclusion should have went this way years ago all the money i wasted on out of the box all in ones.

What seperates did you get?

Can anyone tell me if it is better to get an AV Receiver or an Amplifier (or both) for a setup of TV, Blu Ray, Satellite box and hopefully allow some stereo CD / Turntable addon in future?

Thanks

Harrocks

dixiefly wrote: »

What seperates did you get?

Can anyone tell me if it is better to get an AV Receiver or an Amplifier (or both) for a setup of TV, Blu Ray, Satellite box and hopefully allow some stereo CD / Turntable addon in future?

Thanks

Bought a onkyo tx 607 receiver and q acoustics cinema pack ie all the speakers for a 5.1 set-up recently purchased a pair of 2020s to replace the front speakers now have a 7.1 setup.have a sony blu-ray player and ps3slim hooked into onkyo.Have a standard sky box hooked directly to tv but if i upgrade to sky+/hd box that will be hooked into the onkyo to get the DolbyD 5.1 out of it.

michael m

Dr. Nick wrote: »

I have my sitting room wired for a decent system and will take the plunge this autumn/winter.

Being a beginner in this sphere, I thought a high-end all-in-one might be enough, but can stretch to seperate AV receiver and speakers.

Any opinions on whether a good all-in-one can be as good as seperates?

I had a lot of experience in this area, seperates are the way to go Amplifier Denon AVR 1911 combined with a Pioneer blue ray DVD, Add a set of speakers i.e Bose acoustmass 6, 10, 15 you will have a hell of a system.

However seperates = more remotes so you may need to look at a decent all in one remote control system

Also you need to know how to set this up properly so you may require someone to to this

Dr. Nick

michael m wrote: »

I had a lot of experience in this area, seperates are the way to go Amplifier Denon AVR 1911 combined with a Pioneer blue ray DVD, Add a set of speakers i.e Bose acoustmass 6, 10, 15 you will have a hell of a system.

However seperates = more remotes so you may need to look at a decent all in one remote control system

Also you need to know how to set this up properly so you may require someone to to this

Thanks Michael. I only noticed recently that my 'electrician' ran regular electrical wires for speakers! How big a problem is this?

Idleater

Dr. Nick wrote: »

Thanks Michael. I only noticed recently that my 'electrician' ran regular electrical wires for speakers! How big a problem is this?

no prob.

Solid core speaker wire is what all the cool kids run.

chalky024

Hi Dr. Nick,
You should head over to the Richersounds forum for some more info and some great deals. Have purchased from these guys in the past and will definitely be doing some business with them again. Stick with separates by the way. Once the bug bites it makes it easier to change things later and upgrade as necessary.

Dr. Nick

chalky024 wrote: »

Hi Dr. Nick,
You should head over to the Richersounds forum for some more info and some great deals. Have purchased from these guys in the past and will definitely be doing some business with them again. Stick with separates by the way. Once the bug bites it makes it easier to change things later and upgrade as necessary.

Thanks Chalky. Bought two tvs off the Phillips shop, must keep an eye out on the site.