A few questions from a Noob

jjhumperdink

Hey guys, I'm building my first decent home theater and have a few questions. I just bought a pair of tsi300's and am looking for a center and sub to match. Been looking at the cs20, but am not too sure on the sub. My living room is rather large, so I want to make sure whatever I get will fill the room. Any suggestions on subs? How about the cs20? I'm running everything with a Onkyo sr605 that I've had for about 2 years. Any help would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!

Slinger182

CS20 will suite you well. What's your budget for the sub?

jjhumperdink

Don't really want to spend more than $250-$300, but I'm willing to if need be. Thanks for the info on the cs20's Slinger.

Slinger182

I have this sub and love it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882290130
It's seems to be a good deal that everybody recommends, sometimes it will go down to $225 with free shipping if you want to try and wait. HSU makes another one in that price range that gets recommeded a lot but I don't have any experience with that.
Unless you want to go used. I don't know much about much about that either but I'm sure if you want to do the work looking for one you could find one.

jjhumperdink

Thanks! I'm gonna look into the sub.

Slinger182

Oh and welcome to the club stick around and you'll learn a ton and the people are cool and are awesome and spending your money for you:D

packetjones

I would recommend the CS20 as well. It is the larger of the 2 centers in the TSI line and will fit nicely. Especially if this is for a HT setup.

In regards to the sub, the 505 recommended before is nice. Also look into the STF/VTF series' from HSU. There is also the PB10-NSD available from SVS. It is the lowest priced SVS sub and is a little more that you are listing as a budget though.

On3s&Z3r0s

I have the PSW505 too and can definitely recommend it for home theater. It's not a very musical sub, so if you were planning on listening to much 2 channel music on your home theater and using the sub to compliment the fronts, I'd maybe give the others mentioned a try. One thing that helped a little... the PSW505 comes with just some hard plastic feet that are nailed into the bottom of the enclosure. I took those out and installed some aftermarket carpet spikes. I'd recommend that to tighten up the bass if you're going to have it on carpet.

jjhumperdink

Thanks for all the suggestions. Gonna look into everything today.

cnh

WELCOME TO CLUB POLK!

+1, on all the suggestions above....

cnh