Home Theater Mega Thread

[Street Pharmacist]

Looking for advice.

Bought a house with a room perfect for a theater set up. There are built ins around a very large area to fit a big tv. I put a 120" retractable screen in front instead and installed a decent projector. With the PS4 I had the sound going to a decent sound bar with optical, but my new PS5 only has HDMI out. It was already a problem as I have a cable box hooked up as well so I needed an HDMI switch which meant projector sound for cable Erich doesn't really work. The area is already run with cable for two ceiling speakers and two rear speakers

For my birthday last year my wife bought me an Onkyo 7.2 receiver. Of course, that now necessitates spending $$$ on speakers. See, I don't care at all about sound other than the projector speakers ain't cutting it. I love the utility of the receiver (multiple inputs, native Chromecast, little/no lag for video games), but I don't really want to buy a bunch of speakers.

Are there cheap speaker sets out there? Is there a soundbar receiver that would do something similar?

[DoubleK]

Receiver to a decent soundbar sounds like a decent interim answer.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Receiver to a decent soundbar sounds like a decent interim answer.

My receiver only has l/r speakers wire inputs so no way to do that that I can figure out

[Diemenz]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

My receiver only has l/r speakers wire inputs so no way to do that that I can figure out

I’m pretty certain I have 4 bookshelf speakers sitting around from my last house. I think they are Polk, I used them as surrounds for both setups and they worked great. You can have them on the cheap as I use all Sonos now and won’t be reusing them.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Diemenz

I’m pretty certain I have 4 bookshelf speakers sitting around from my last house. I think they are Polk, I used them as surrounds for both setups and they worked great. You can have them on the cheap as I use all Sonos now and won’t be reusing them.

I'm in Salmon Arm so that'll be difficult

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

I'm in Salmon Arm so that'll be difficult

Meet in Banff!

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Looking for advice.

Bought a house with a room perfect for a theater set up. There are built ins around a very large area to fit a big tv. I put a 120" retractable screen in front instead and installed a decent projector. With the PS4 I had the sound going to a decent sound bar with optical, but my new PS5 only has HDMI out. It was already a problem as I have a cable box hooked up as well so I needed an HDMI switch which meant projector sound for cable Erich doesn't really work. The area is already run with cable for two ceiling speakers and two rear speakers

For my birthday last year my wife bought me an Onkyo 7.2 receiver. Of course, that now necessitates spending $$$ on speakers. See, I don't care at all about sound other than the projector speakers ain't cutting it. I love the utility of the receiver (multiple inputs, native Chromecast, little/no lag for video games), but I don't really want to buy a bunch of speakers.

Are there cheap speaker sets out there? Is there a soundbar receiver that would do something similar?

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