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"A Proud Owner of a 5.1 System :)"

Sorry for devotinga whole post to this but I have to express the sheer delight that I am experiencing at the moment! Yesterday I picked up a Dolby Digital 5.1/DTS Surround Sound system and to be honest I can't type words to describe how awesome this piece of equipment is. Without sounding too cheesy (although it really does :) life just isn't the same without it :)

Playing Halo in surround sound is nothing short of glorious! I am struggling to find words to describe how good Dolby Digital Sound is and it really does have to be experienced to be believe. Only Cliche's and Cheesy sentences can describe this system so I will now proceed to bring this post to an end :)

In Short go get one of these systems! It is worth every penny!

Yah, I ended up unplugging about 50 wires from the back of it, putting it down on the floor hitting it a bit and swearing a few times. Put it back, plugged it all in and it worked.

Wehey!

bet it involved swearing and hitting it didn't it ;)

normaly works.

Got it working now - after shoving around with it for a while.

Christ knows what was wrong.

:-)

Grrr...I suppose I got what I deserved. One speaker on my amp seems to have conked out, just out of the blue while I was listening to the radio on it (one quater power level)

Anyway, it's the front right speaker. I've tried switching over the front two leads, which then makes the front left speaker not work. This means it's not the speaker that's blown, as it works with the wires switched over.

I then thought it may be the wire. So I went to the amp and tried plugging the front right wire (the one I thought was faulty) into the front left speaker connection. Damn, it worked, which means it's not the wire, as again the speaker plugges into the front right connection didn't work.

Which leads me to believe there is a problem with the front right amplifier, which could lead to a trip back to currys (any one know their policys? It's about 3 months old)

Or has anyone else got any other ideas of what may be wrong before I get my dad to have a look without opening it up - don't want to void the warrenty just in case.

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It helps to have an X-Box to do a setup though dopey. ;-)

i hate you tom and your x box set up.

i'll have to make mine bigger and better muhahahahahahahahaa

The Master wrote:
> na i wanted a proper seperate amp and speakers, the set i want is like
> £300 or so LOL
>
> all in good time.

Mine are separates. Although they came in one big box, I opened the box and inside was 2 more boxes. The amp, and the speaker set - both which can be bought at Richer Sounds.

Got it reduced though as my kit doesn't support DTS. Still, 60W per channel (and 100W per speaker if I ever want to upgrade my amp) suits me fine. None of that PMPO crap either, this is it's true power.

£209 mine was. http://www.toms.area.btinternet.co.uk/Temp/main.htm it's probably on there with the rest of my console kit.

Will do Sav :) It took me a while to navigate around the DVD and at first I din't think that I would see any game footage until I went to the 'MORE' option on the main menu and then clicked on the Xbox. I watched footage of the new bond film (which looks a bit dated) and I have viewed a few other things in and around the DVD.

Garbe - goto the "feel more" are of the DVD. once you see the 3 options to pick, goto the X-Box Live one. ;-)

Yeah i was looking in to buying one, but am on a budget but i would really like to get one how much do they start at and have you got nay good web sites i can use?