Thursday, August 13, 2009

How To Buy Audio Speakers

By Dave Heebs

Maximizing the home theater experience is important to homeowners. In order to do this, they search out the best components they can find. They will buy all the necessary components but leave purchasing the speakers until the end. Speakers can be expensive if they are top of the line and the price is a consideration for all but the very rich.

Millionaires don't need to comparison shop. The rest of us do. When looking to purchase anything we typically have to fit the item into our budget and in doing so will sometimes have to sacrifice quality for price. Fortunately for us, when buying stereo equipment, the speaker is the component that allows us to go down in price without sacrificing too much in quality.

The biggest factor is going to be your budget. There is no use looking at speakers that you have no hope of being able to buy. Your time is precious and researching and looking at speakers in your price range will save you valuable time that is more useful being spent narrowing your list of speaker candidates down.

You will then need to take stock of your requirements for the system. If you have some components that will only work with certain speakers then this will narrow down the list of possible speakers to choose from.

The next step is to search online for speakers that fit not only your system's requirements but also your budget. Go through all the speakers that fit and make a list. This will allow you start narrowing down your choices.

The next step is to read as many reviews as possible about the speaker models on your list. These reviews will be from magazines as well as consumers who have bought the model and have real world experience with the speaker. The things you want to focus on are the warranty, the performance and the sound quality.

In order to set up a surround sound theater, you should purchase five speakers. This way you have enough speakers so you can setup them up in a circle around the audience.

Getting the right speakers for you doesn't have to be impossible. If you take it step by step you will find the right speaker set for you.

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