I am a wii owner now!

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TWRoO said:

Esa-Petteri said:

This. If you buy quality speakers, they will do for a looong time. $3k isn't that much but it is a good start. :)

 

I have had my small system in my room for 6-7 years, and there is nothing wrong with the speakers that came with it... the whole lot was just under £100.
Ok so I have a small room, I think the wattage for the combined 2 speakers (zomg only 2!) is probably less than 30.

In the living room we have had a bigger system for about 10 years, speakers still fine, I believe it was about £200 when we got it, the only thing that went wrong is my dad nicked one of the speaker wires when putting in a new carpet, so it started cutting out, but we shortened the wire and it is fine again.
I believe they are about 60Watts each.... and it sounds good.

 

I have a 12" 250W sub-woofer (overkill, but it was on sale ), and a 7.2 system with 95W (maybe 100 can't remember) per channel.

There is nothing wrong with cheap speakers, but they don't recreate the full audio range as accurately. Typically cheap speakers focus on the high and low frequencies sacrificing the mid range (Bose is a perfect example of this). Also, as you try to turn them up they distort the sound as they can't handle the volume. As you travel up the price range they create the entire audio range with better clarity. Also, you move from cheap plastic or fake wood cases to real wood cases that look like furniture. Of course, you can buy $2k speakers and they will sound like crap if you don't have your room & system properly balanced.