Sick of all these speakers in here – eight all in, and miles of associated cabling (unidirectional of course).
What would people recommend that can do music and movies equally? Movie systems seem to be huge on bass but not on musicality, all the better to make your ears bleed/annoy your neighbours with punch explosions and the like presumably. My semi-cheap 5.1 system sounds really quite nice for films (and strangely the music in films) but really crappy when you play a CD through it. It’s a Marantz something with Tannoy 5.1 speakers that were £200 on offer from Richer Sounds a while back.
I thought I wanted the Arcam Solo Movie 5.1, thinking I could jsut about stretch to two grand maybe at some point in the future, but then I realised that the speakers are two grand and the electronics are another two grand.
Small size and discretion are preferred, both for speakers and electronics.