http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/ Engadget Comments for Samsung rolls out the AS730 HTIB system http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/Since the most important part of any audio system are the speakers this solution makes very little sense.
You would be MUCH better off by starting to buy some good speakers and a good powered sub that you can use as ampli, and then when your budget allows it, you can add a good surround ampli/receiver, and maybe 2 more speakers to make the system 7.1]]>Mar 31st 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/
- What's the Total Harmonic Distortion at the rated power level? Some of Samsung's previous systems were rated at 10% T.H.D.! A decent receiver will be less than 0.1%.

- How many ohms are the speakers? Some of Samsuns previous systems were 3ohm, which pull more wattage out of the same components, artificially bumping up the wattage specs.

- What's the sensitivity of the speakers? Many low end speakers require a more power to fill a room with sound, so the receiver will be operating near it's peak wattage where distortion and clipping is worst.]]>Mar 31st 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/
This I get. For $150 more, you get 7.1 surround, not "fake surround" (ie NO surround). Here's a bottom-of-the-line system to get you in. It isn't going to sound like Paradigms, but it also isn't going to cost $3K per speaker!

-Pie]]>Mar 31st 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/samsung-rolls-out-the-as730-htib-system/]]>Mar 31st 2009 6:05PM