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LegalizeJenkem
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Aug 30, 2016
Would anyone recommend these for a basic home entertainment system setup?
Buying a new living room TV and looking for a decent sound system to support TV/Netflix/gaming/music etc. Wondering if this set is appropriate for such an application, given the headphone amp and usb DAC included (not sure if they would get much use). Roommate is looking at cheap soundbars, was trying to find a superior alternative at a decent price. Already have a satisfactory speaker/headphone setup for my desktop computer, so I would not use this set for that.
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Aug 30, 2016
LegalizeJenkemThis would be a killer near field home theater set up. ("Near field" meaning you won't produce really high sound pressure levels with speakers this size in a large room.) Hook the included optical (digital cable) from the TV's digital out (many new TV's have an optical output) to the amp's optical input to make use of the DAC. BTW, this will allow you to control the basic sound functions with the TV's remote so you won't have to grab a second remote to adjust volume, etc. And while not necessary, if you can swing it I'd recommend a small sub to fill out the theater sound. But either way it's really good set up for stereo TV sound, beyond most sound bars and light years ahead of any built in TV speakers.
I should say I haven't heard these Kanto speakers but I have a set of Aperion 4B (4" analog stereo speakers) and a Boston Acoustics 8" sub that I had hooked up to a borrowed friends Kanto amp. It sounded good enough and was compact enough that I am considering purchasing one of these amps to run in a bedroom TV set up.
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