PHILIPS [HTB3570/79] 5.1 3D Blu-Ray Home Theatre System $209.79 Delivered @ DSE

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  bargaino on 23/05/2014 - 20:05

  1000W RMS from those two-inch drivers!?
  Looking up the spec's it says 166W per channel (incl "sub"-woofer) @ 30% distortion.
  Not 0.3%, but 30%!! What would that sound like in real life?

  For $238 it might be fantastic value, and sound good at 20W/channel peak (which is loud enough). But 1000W?

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    Miami Mall Alien on 24/05/2014 - 00:23

    Not 0.3%, but 30%!! What would that sound like in real life?

    Absolute sh*t. I had the displeasure of buying and returning a Panasonic SC-AKX56 ("1000 Watt") Mini Hi-Fi last year which sounded quieter and far worse than a 12 year old, 120 Watt RMS Philips stereo I have in storage. I was blown away at how muffled something that cost $400 dollars and weighed a decent amount, sounded.

    It's unbelievable what passes for "sound" these days, must be all those Apple earbud headphones that morons have had plugged into their ears for the last decade; seems to have reduced collective human hearing to the frequency range of a coma patient.

    30% THD is the going rate in most Mini Hi-Fis, all-in-one Home Theatre systems, portable radios and crappy bookshelf speakers these days.

    But 1000W?

    It's 1000 Watts RMS. Which stands for Really Means Shit-all.

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  BeefBiryani on 24/05/2014 - 15:07

  I actually bought one of these when they had them for $199 last year. Sound quality is pretty good.