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surround is silly imo in standard residential settings. sell all your surround crap and buy better 2-channel.>
This in spades, @dancing james . I had a decent 5.1 setup a few years back but sold it and invested in a much better 2.0 setup. Stereo amps in particular are so much better than surround sound ones.
Do I miss the surround sound? On 99% of movies its poorly used and the 1% that its done properly its pretty gimmicky IMO. With decent stereo you get a very wide soundstage and real depth anyway.
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@timmah!
surround is silly imo in standard residential settings. sell all your surround crap and buy better 2-channel.
I've recently bought a FiiO X1 after being pissed off at the crappy music players on phones (iphones are ok, android and windows SUCK)
It's great. interfaces and stuff aren't super slick, kind of chinese and beta-feeling functional, but works really well with isyncer to move music onto it, and sounds brilliant. Recommend, and pretty good value if you've already got SD cards kicking round.