People tell us all the time upon a visit to our Showroom: “I didn’t know stores like this exist anymore!” Where you can not only hear what you are buying, but actually have it set up in an isolated room without other shoppers or noise around, and focus on the pleasure and your own tastes.
The featured image above is directly from the Bluesound website. Because it works perfect for the point I’m making today 😊 A TV, 2 speakers and a rounded black box (Amplifier).
Your first Home Theater system with in this case, three speakers, not two, 6 or 7, but 3. (Explained below)
This three speaker theater sounds fantastic, it takes up so little space. You can add stuff to it like a CD player or Turntable and when you’re ready to step into the next level of theater (if you do), this system will make an entertainment center in another room, a college dorm, for visiting family in a guest bedroom or a home office, etc.
Who creates a Home Theater with just three speakers?
Someone like myself: Just starting out with my first system, budget is tight, yet I want something that sounds excellent, and is easy to use.
What is the System?
A pair of PSB Imagine Mini Bookshelf speakers ($750/pair), a REL Acoustics T7i Amplifier Powered Sub-Base Speaker (Subwoofer – $999/ea.), a Bluesound Powernode 2i Digital Streamer – Stereo Amplifier – WiFi – Music Server – DAC ($799 – all in one), a pair of PSB stands ($299), Transparent Audio Cables (approx. $150) and your existing TV (though we can provide your Sony TV needs). All for about $2997. NO PRESSURE.
Just come in to hear it. And then go home and think about it. Also, think about every night when you get home from work, bad day or good day, you will have this little escape area in your home to chill out.
How Difficult is the Setup?
Take the optical or coaxial audio out connection on your smart tv into the back of your BlueSound Powernode 2i, Make your left and right speaker connections, plug your powered subwoofer into the Subw connection in the back of the Powernode, then you’ll need to get into your TV settings and turn off the TV speakers and since all TV’s are a little different, you may have to modify a couple other TV audio settings and also choose Surround sound or similar and naturally one confusing thing will hit you, and when you figure that one out, You’re Done!
Negative Comments
This is the part that the big box stores or online vendors that sell a 5.1 system in a box for $399 do not tell you. It’s going to sound like garbage. You would have been better off buying a $200 set of headphones and an iPhone dock.
Systems that actually sound good do in fact cost some money. Ya do need to spend at least a couple grand to have something that you will not get a headache listening to, and something that when company comes over to your home, they actually tell you that it sounds great.
Summary
Bluesound products have been around for quite a while and we have many happy customers who have bought them from us. PSB speakers including the ones in this story, Won TAS (The Absolute Sound) 2017 Editors Choice Award. REL Acoustics has the Sub-Base speaker system down, (has earned a number of great reviews, Tone Audio and The Absolute Sound) where it sounds great as a home theater speaker that goes boom, or for 2 channel stereo, it takes a modest pair of speakers and fills in the dynamic range of sounds in the low end that you’d normally be missing.
Also, this Powernode 2i has a really excellent DAC at it’s price point, and when you connect this system with your favorite music streaming service, of which I strongly recommend Tidal for your service, and you now have most any music in high resolution at your fingertips. Later, you can look into Roon (because Roon and Tidal have the ultimate Audiophile combo) to organize, search and expand your listening library. Check out Roon here.
Ed Masterson at Audible Images AV is an Audiophile at heart. He hates sales, does not allow sales pressure, however, he does insist (without pressure) that you let him give you a brief listening tour of all 3 of our Reference Listening Rooms so that you experience something you never have before in your life.
Come in and treat yourself to a relaxed, no sales, listening experience. Ask all the questions you want!
Thank you.
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