Speakers, well you get what you pay for. My expirience of 5.1 systems is that they are totally ruined by shitty speakers. The amps and decoders are usually very good, even cheap stuff, but people seem to expect to be able to spend £100 on 6 speakers and want it to sound good, not a chance!
A barely decent set of very small hifi (ish) stereo speakers is going to set you back £100. Apply this logic to 5.1 and you should expect to pay £300 to £400 for anything half decent. If you cant afford that stay with decnt stereo untill you can.
I recently auditioned sets of surround sound speakers on music in a hifi shop and I can honestly say that anything less than a grand for the 6 speakers sounded absoloute crap to my ears.
Dont buy lots of speakers untill you can afford good ones. Two good speakers in stereo is MUCH MUCH better than 5 or 6 squawking boxes of crap.
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