[Solved] Surround Sound Deal from Newegg worth it??

thanks for your reply.. hahaha.. i've been checking this off and on for a while.. glad someone answered

amazon sells the same system for $474. but if they are giving you an onkyo free, is it a NEW one, or a returned one? One may wonder why they are so desperate to sell it? Probably cause no one wants to buy it. Now klipsch really is a good brand, but is that what you really want? I won't even consider a subwoofer unless it's 15". Little subs don't have much bass, after all. If the front side rear is not at least a 10" woofer, It wont sound like much. And you might as well buy 3 sets of powered computer speakers, cause that's about what you are getting for $599.

im sure the 2.5inch mids will perform just fine.

you never know the excursion may be relaly good on the 2.5s you cant decide on jsut the driver size

did yuou know that the harmon kardon GLA-55 speakers midrange cone has an excursion of 1inches? (peak to peak) and its only 3inches.

the klipsch may have similar properties.

they should have sealed that sub, and ported the sattelites

1 inch excursion...maybe if it was de-coupled with a phase plug. A lot of subwoofers would fail with that much excursion...

Soundguruman, I think you mean as a woofer. A 2 or 3" driver is the perfect size for the midrange in a 3-way system. It's running everything below the midrange (500hz and below) that's the problem. In a typical loudspeaker (a 2-way), a small driver like that is overly taxed.

anyways heres one ive found jsut now : http://news.inventhelp.com/Article [...] 12400.aspx

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"The Atlas AL woofers peak-to-peak excursion of almost an inch means that these little gems can push out an impressive deep, bass sound."

the JBL pc speakers that has atlas drivers and magnum woofers also share similar properties, JBL creature 2 has a very high excursion on its sattelites, at loud volume.

Looks like a lifestyle product to me. Dell sold a $2,500 22" TN panel with glass enclosure, while they were selling simultaneously selling a $250 22" S-IPS monitor.

Anyway, Harman is known to be a little liberal about specs. Their stuff never seems to measure in the lab as well as they claim.

Some can and some can't. The big SPL subs are made to produce large SPLs without heavy excursion. A driver that has to do large amounts of end-to-end excursion is in a system that has serious design compromises. The sub I have next to my computer has a max excursion of 1.4" before the suspension system starts to take heavy damage, and the attached servo feedback system won't be able to handle that much stress. The driver alone weighs over 50lbs, and is capable of 10hz down at -10db, and is a flat 12-109Hz +/- 2db.

well for a small sub to produce large SPL, it must have big excursion, or else you jsut cant move enough air, to produce a 'big' sound.

excursion can be reduced as the drivers gets bigger, cos its moving a lot of air anyway.

I bought a pair of EV sentry's at a garage sale for $100 that had reconed JBL K series 15" woofers in them. You could hear them 2 blocks away when I fired them up. You can buy Advents at garage sales that blow away Harman glass speakers.
As long as there are garage sale speakers, I would not buy speakers with 2-1/2" woofers for $600.

because we love to argue about sound equipment.