Home Theater Setup

• Wolves of Babylon

  So our new house is getting close to being done and it is time to install the home theater. I am doing in wall speakers. 5 speakers, 1 sub. Also speakers in kitchen and patio. Also thinking of doin Sonos.
  
  Any recommendation on speakers/receivers? And anyone ever use sonos? The guy I'm working with is pushing paradigm speakers pretty hard.
  
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• Automatik

  

  I'm not well versed on entire home setups, but just from messing around with a friend's Sonus system, I would definitely check it out. I believe he setup his entire home for around $2k.
• Ironman92

  

  Sounds cool. Friend growing up had a huge house and had a speaker/music system throughout....old school though and not great sound.
  
  Our first house I ran speaker wires to the basement and out to our detached garage....sounded amazingly good.
  
  Bought a home theater setup for my living room and about stabbed 5 people trying to get the GDSOB to work...never did. Have an LG sound bar and woofer....sounds good but I only use it when playing XM on the tv
• gut

  I don't really know much about Sonos....what I know is their "virtual" replication of surround sound, which if you're putting in 5 speakers why not step-up to better purpose-built speakers? Sonos might make sense for the other rooms. I wouldn't attempt to recommend speakers even if I knew, but it's obviously going to depend on your budget and what you really want out of the system. Saw Paradigm plugged on one site as a good value buy for smaller spaces.
  
  Depends on the size of the room, but if it's a true home theater set-up optimize for Dolby Atmos....receiver will set you back $500-$600, and then it's a 5.1 set.
  
  If you built this house and will be there for many years, I think it would be worth a quality, purpose-built system. My system is 10 years old and absolutely nothing wrong with it, except I'm looking to upgrade my receiver mainly because everything is hdmi now and it's just worth buying new.
• raiderbuck

  Have you checked out www.avsforum.com yet? I browsed that forum year's ago when I was looking for speakers for my apartment set up. They have everything from entry level to professional grade stuff there.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  Wolves of Babylon;1753755 wrote:So our new house is getting close to being done and it is time to install the home theater. I am doing in wall speakers. 5 speakers, 1 sub. Also speakers in kitchen and patio. Also thinking of doin Sonos.
  
  Any recommendation on speakers/receivers? And anyone ever use sonos? The guy I'm working with is pushing paradigm speakers pretty hard.
  
  Sent from my VS986 using Tapatalk

  I would HIGHLY recommend SONOS based on what it sounds like you are trying to do (home theater, then kitchen, patio). The integration between seamless audio playing will be such a convenience.
• arnie palmer

  

  I had SONOS installed this summer in my house and LOVE IT! I have speakers both inside in TV/Family room and outside speakers on my deck. There are 2 different SONOS set-ups. If you have plans to expand to more than one room and/or want to have different things playing in different rooms get the higher priced SONOS set-up (about $100 more at Best buy). You could be playing radio or XM radio outside and have inside doing TV/Cable, NETFLIX,etc. With the lower priced SONOS you would have to listen to the same thing both inside and outside.
• superman

  If you have the money, you can't go wrong with Klipsch.
• sportchampps

  Sonos is great.
• Uz2Bon36

  

  Cerwin-Vega makes awesome subwoofers and sells lots of options for home/auto speakers.
• gut

  Definitive Technology is good, too. About $1400 for a center channel, sub and 2 rear surround. Then it's what you want to do for the front left and right channels - personally I prefer floor speakers for that to pull double-duty for music listening as well. Although you can get an actual 5.1 surround system from DT for only $800, but their better subs are $500-$600 by themselves.
  
  Dolby Atmos is supposed to be awesome, like movie theater quality sound. So I'd want decent speakers really designed to be a component surround system. Maybe Sonos is good for that, too, but I've always thought of Sonos as standalone speakers that virtually create the sound of two or more surround speakers. And screw virtual.
  
  Multi-room listening is easy with a Zone 2 set-up, which can be turned on and off, on any decent AVR. If you want to play different music in each room sometimes, then I'd just do separate systems or maybe Sonos speakers make sense in your other rooms if they can stream music on their own (thus avoiding a 2nd and/or 3rd AVR).
  
  IMO, I wouldn't sacrifice the home theater experience to have the sort of music control in multi-rooms you're talking about and will probably rarely use.