I am looking to buy a entry level home theater system. The budget is less than $600. I perfer 5.1 speaker and receiver has upconvert and at least 3 HDMI in. Either one set or separate system is fine. I perfer less wire as possible. Is there any speaker set which is wireless? I mainly use for movie and game. Suggestion and recommendation would be greatly appreciated!! I researched these systems. Option 1: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HTS-S370-Surround-Theater-System/dp/B0035ER1QE (I like the rear wireless feature. But I worry that the quality of sound might not be good) Option 2: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882120166 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882780018 (I think the sound quality would be better than option 1 but it might do alot of wire.)
I'd definitely go with Onkyo over Sony. Sony makes good tvs and blu ray players, including the ps3, but their receivers and HTIBs aren't very good. If you just need a receiver, the Onkyo TX-SR608 you linked to would be very nice. They are a lot of bang for the buck. Decodes the HD audio formats, has plenty of digital inputs, and has Audyssey auto calibration feature, which works very well. It tends to set speakers to "Large" though. Manually set them to "Small", or the opposite of how it sets them in that respect. The other settings it makes should stay the same. If you go with the Onkyo, make sure that Amazon doesn't have it cheaper. Have you heard Klipsch speakers? If not, you need to listen. People either love them or hate them. There's no in between with them. It's because of the horn style of tweeter they use. Can cause the speakers to sound very "bright" and become fatiguing to listen to after a few minutes. Don't know if this is the case with the small satellite speakers like in the link. I'm one that can't listen to them for more than about 30 mins. max. Some love bright speakers........ I don't. Do you? I will never recommend wireless speakers. It's just something else to go wrong. You familiar with "Murphy's Law" (if something can go wrong, it will)? It's too easy to run wires under rugs or carpet, under the house and come up through tiny hole by speaker, run wires under or behind base moulding or shoe/toe mould. I'd also use a minimum of 14 AWG wire. Get it from Lowe's, Home Depot, or Monoprice.com: http://www.monoprice.com/home/index.asp You'd do good to get all your wire and cables from monoprice.com. Very good stuff at cheap prices. Don't spend big bucks on Monster cables, or any other big buck brand. Good luck!
