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Looking to upgrade to ~Surround Sound/Home Theater~ for my smallish apt. For gaming and watching movies. Want wall mounted wireless solution, 5.1 1080p optical connection. Budget not more than 500,000. Any suggested help greatly appreciated.

[bassexpander]

What part of it do you want to be wireless? As in the rear speakers?

1080p is a video spec. The hi-rez audio (DTS-MA) only works over HDMI, and optical is locked-out from it.

Personally, I think you should up your budget and get a system you can keep for a decade.

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Thanks bass, I'll keep that in mind but my wife is very frugal. Anyhow, a friend recommended this Logitech Z-5450 Digital 5.1 Speaker System. Basically all I need, I think... but can't find a link here in Korea. Yeah rear wireless would be good enough.

http://www.buy.com/prod/logitech-z-5450-digital-5-1-speaker-system/q/loc/111/201967914.html

[bassexpander]

You mean something like this? I do believe the rears are wireless.

http://www.interpark.com/product/MallDisplay.do?_method=detail&sc.shopNo=0000100000&sc.prdNo=48344053&sc.dispNo=016001


2nd link: http://www.11st.co.kr/product/SellerProductDetail.tmall?method=getSellerProductDetail&prdNo=4386729


This may be last year's model for less:

http://www.11st.co.kr/product/SellerProductDetail.tmall?method=getSellerProductDetail&prdNo=4386798&xfrom=mallplan^

[spliff]

Yeah that looks good. Is it wireless rear?

Also, need a sound card and like this one. But, it's 230,000 here.

Also, wonder if it's possible to wall mount those speakers. I have the room for them but mounting them would be optimal.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102014

[bassexpander]

You're trying to use a computer with it? Well, i'd think about anything with an optical out would work. Not sure if that system has an optical input, though. I'll try to figure it out.

Those are wifi speakers for rears, but I doubt they could be mounted. They are on their own stands.

That system comes with the DVD player and amp all in one.

[bassexpander]

The USA versions of those systems do have optical input.

Ah, I read the Korean... it does have digital input. The more expensive one looks much better.

[JungMin]

I'd be a bit wary of wireless speakers. I haven't had any myself, but I have read many are plagued by bad sound and interference.

Just something to double check with before you make the purchase.

[bassexpander]

Those also have a USB jack for playing DIVX stuff too.

[bassexpander]

Amazon of the cheaper of the two:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PU6MBQ?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=cnet-ce-20&linkCode=asn


Found this in the comments:

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Thinking hard on this: 438,000 in Korea.

http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?class=Systems&m=HT-SR600&p=i

And this sound card: 74,000 in Korea.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829156001

Any ideas on these choices?

[mrsquirrel]

Did you get the link to the panasonic setup recomended in the top ten.

It was priced at 324k or so in korea with speaker stands.

[mrsquirrel]

The sound card might have driver issues in Vista 64.

Something you need to look into.

[IlIlNine]

I have the yamaha TSS-15

http://itempage3.auction.co.kr/DetailView.aspx?ItemNo=A505914656&frm2=through

It's small, sounds alright, isn't expensive, has two optical and one coax digital input, one analogue input...

It's more than loud enough for my 25 pyeong place. It's not wireless though.. but the wires are long and thin - easy to run.

Sound card? Any cheap soundcard with an optical out will do - all those sound cards do is pass the digital data along, so there's actually no difference between cheap and expensive cards on an optical out (the expense lies in amplification and processing which you offload using the digital out). Get one with the envy24 chipset - should be about 30,000.

[mrsquirrel]