How much does an entry-level home theater cost?

When the new house is renovated, many small partners also want to install a set of home theaters to experience immersive surround sound and video effects, but for xiaobai who does not understand home theaters, how much money to invest to produce the effect is completely unclear.

In particular, you can often see questions like this: "Three thousand budget home theaters to recommend, two thousand pieces of projectors which is better?" ", here the old snail can clearly tell you that if you do not consider the inferior equipment of the quality of the three no products, copycat goods and other quality assurances, and do not consider picking up others' second-hand (second-hand can also be heaven, it may also be hell, but the new genuine product is the world), a set of entry-level home theater equipment, no two or three thousand is not down. Note that it is in line with the national standard, the real home theater, the so-called intelligent projection, micro projection, echo wall multimedia active speakers and the like are not discussed.

Where is this money spent, or how the budget is allocated, the following is a brief description, of course, only represents personal views and opinions, for reference only.

Projector (from ¥5000)

With the 4K technology gimmick almost hyped, the technology is maturing day by day, especially the wide application of 4K DLP chips, the price of entry-level 4K projectors has fallen into ten thousand yuan, of course, color, contrast and other good or bad for the time being.

And the 1080P machine has long been fully popularized, and even gradually withdrawn from the market, entry-level products still have some living space, and low-end jitter 4K machine to grab the market, can meet the home theater standards of products, the transaction price is basically five thousand to start, such as Epson 5700, Youpai 701 this.

Curtain (¥1500 up)

For the living room environment, it is of course best to use a narrow-edge frame curtain, but considering the installation of the TV set, most of them are still electric curtains, and the old snail recommends the use of electric pull wire white soft screen, the pull wire will not be curled, and it is more flat, and the white soft screen color temperature and color reproduction are the best performance.

In the past two years, the degree of attention is relatively high, the controversy is also relatively large anti-light curtain recommended careful choice, inferior products will seriously damage the viewing effect, color temperature is not correct, color distortion, small viewing angle, etc., in addition, even if it is a high-quality telephoto anti-light curtain, it is also necessary to pull the curtain during the day.

Here the old snail also has a piece of advice, the curtain is difficult to upgrade and replace the equipment, the size is large, it is difficult to disassemble and assemble, and it is not easy to get out of the second hand, it is best to buy a good point in one step.

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Player (from ¥1000)

Many people are not sure why they should be equipped with a player, and the general TV set can not be played directly?

In fact, the TV set is built-in, a more professional set of equipment for playback performance and function requirements are higher, naturally need to be equipped with another. A professional, easy-to-use home theater Blu-ray player can not only provide the best picture quality and sound signal source, but also should be very easy to use and simple to operate, especially if there are elderly and children at home.

Friends who are used to buying discs can choose a good Blu-ray machine, and the entry-level one or two thousand or even hundreds of pieces can be done, such as Sony X700 (jailbreak?). You get the idea); Have a NAS at home or are used to watching streaming media, and occasionally online video partners can consider hard disk machines, one or two thousand can be used, such as Zhidu z10pro.

Of course, if the budget is very tight, it is not impossible to use the existing ps5 or computer at home as a player, as for how the sound and picture effect is, whether it is good or not is another matter.

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AV amplifier (from ¥3000)

AV amplifier as the core hub of the entire home theater system, must not be cheap, first of all, the pre-processing performance to keep up, and then is to amplify the power is not enough, according to the current mainstream Japanese power amplifier sequence, the lowest-end entry-level products also have to be two or three thousand, can not push the speaker has to say another.

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Subwoofer (¥4000 up)

The importance of the subwoofer has been said too many times before, and I will not repeat it here, you can check out the previous post: "Home Theater Subwoofer Purchase Sunflower Treasure Book".

Casually open the e-commerce website can see a lot of hundreds of thousands of products, do not think, basically are pit goods, I saw that there is a nominal 60W power of the cannon is also known as "shocking bass", the volume of the big point directly broken sound, shocking a hammer ah.

I privately define the entry-level subwoofer, that is, the horn is not less than 12 inches, the power is not less than 400 watts, the weight is not less than 20 kg, and the frequency response range covers at least 30-120Hz (in principle, the lower limit of the low frequency should reach 20Hz or even lower). For example, SVS SB2000, ultrasonic SUB112, and Hoyo HRS-12 can ensure that the basic sound pressure level and effect guarantee can be achieved in a small audio-visual room.

According to the current market situation, this level is basically four or five thousand.

Single speaker (from ¥1000)

The above said a lot, in fact, the speaker is the most important, directly determine whether the sound is good, whether the restoration is accurate, tuning style and timbre, can not be ignored.

At present, the market situation, a thousand is basically a watershed, less than 1000 yuan can basically only consider plastic shell satellite speakers, high-quality speakers (including into the wall, ceiling speakers) basically to one or two thousand to start, not capped.

A surround sound home theater system starts at least 5.1, which is 5 speakers and a subwoofer. With the rise of panoramic sound technology, civilian theaters have been able to reach 32 channels, as for how many channels can be on, it depends on the size of your room and the thickness of your wallet.

Wire (from ¥2000)

The last thing to emphasize is the wire, in the whole home theater system, the most easily overlooked thing is the wire. Even many audio shops are equipped with the most expensive speakers for you, with the cheapest amplifier, wire directly gifted... As for why, of course, the speaker profit is relatively high.

Home theater buried line is mainly used in the speaker line, HDMI line and active subwoofer with the audio signal line, see the reference budget everyone may be a little surprised, why so much.

According to personal experience, the budget of the cable should account for about 10% of the total price of the equipment, unless you are simply playing in the rental house, or pulling the line, without considering future maintenance and upgrades.

As for the product recommendation, choose a lot to see it yourself, but I want to talk about it, that is, some of the tinned horn lines that sell well and are cheap at a good price, which is the so-called "gold and silver wire", the brand will not say.

To say that the metal conductivity, tin does not rank in the top ten, coupled with the skin effect, the effect can be imagined. The following image is from the U.S. High School Chemistry Navigator website:

The above, basically is a set of home theater system required equipment, of course, only the entry-level price, to achieve better results hundred thousand to hundreds of thousands are normal, fever level of more than a million is not a lot, you can do it.