Recommendations for affordable 5.1 Surround Sound System?

[Motherf♥♥♥er Big Scorpio]

I would like to setup a Surround 5.1 Sound System and gain an advantage when online gaming by perceiving advanced directional sound (Front Left and right + Back Left and right).

I am looking for simple affordable recommendations. Also I will need a soundcard (external or internal) supporting 5.1 surround sound because my Motherboard's built-in soundcard is trash and corrupts the audio output at random.

I'm in Europe. Considering options like around 100-200 EUR range (flexible range).

[Kobs]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

Logitech Z906 can be found brand new in box for $399

That's not expensive

OP asked for 100-200 euros

[Bad 💀 Motha]

But the 399 is when looking on USA websites, USD$. I can't speak for EU stuff. If you can get purchases shipped to you from Germany, Netherlands, Romania... perhaps you can find something similar for cheaper.

Overall, below 200 it's not really worth it to look at 5.1 or 7.1 Surround Speakers... go with studio quality headphones instead. Some really good German brands for those for under around 100-200

[CZI]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

Logitech Z906 can be found brand new in box for $399

That's not expensive

I'm using Logitech Z906 for a couple years too. It is THX certfied.

It seems over budget of OP. But for 5.1ch, I think it's reasonable price.

If there's not good product in the OP's budget range. OP may need raise budget for 5.1ch or change target to 2.1ch.

[Motherf♥♥♥er Big Scorpio]

Like I said. My price range is flexible and 100-200 EUR was my initial orientation.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Too low for surround speakers.

[r0llinlacs]

Ursprungligen skrivet av BIG SCORPIO:

Like I said. My price range is flexible and 100-200 EUR was my initial orientation.

You gonna have to up that budget a bit but nothing crazy

Get a 5.1 receiver and speakers. I recommend partsexpress.com. You can probably find a decent 5.1 receiver for around $150-200.

I got decent MTM surrounds for $15 a speaker from there. I use one of them as center channel too. Then I have front channel Sony tower speakers I got for $40 at a pawn shop over 10 years ago. But you can get decent brand new towers for around $100 from parts express.

They also have a large selection of powered subwoofers starting pretty cheap, and also kits to build your own. I built my own enclosure for a 12" and powered it with a BASH 500-S amp which was more expensive than it should be. But there's cheaper sub amps you can choose from. I just wanted a lot of power.

So about $500 and you got a good system you can upgrade any part of in the future and will be far more configurable than any of those crappy home theatres in a box or soundbars or the junky cheap PC surround systems. Oh, and it will sound 100x better too.

Oh and you could definitely get by without a subwoofer depending what front channel speakers you get. If you get towers they usually have great bass by themselves, but if you get monitors or bookshelfs you probably want a sub.