My friend actually bought a Yamaha YHT498 from Amazon, paid using his coop card, and including shipping, the total cost was about 40k or so. This was about 1 year or so ago.

@Odhiambo, the audio giants prefer an AV Receiver NOT to come with speakers, that way, they can go out and buy the best speakers as per their needs. Onkyo may make excellent AVR, but not necessarily the best speakers. Its like the best of both worlds; best AVR + best speakers = audio heaven.

However, some AVRs do come with speakers.

Not only can that Yamaha play movies, it can also play Blue Ray discs, comes with an SD card slot and USB slot as standard. So yes, it can play movies.


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:09 AM, wa <wanangu@gmail.com> wrote:
Check out this guys on BlisStylz they got AV receivers .


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Benjamin Muraguri <muraguri@gmail.com> wrote:
@Dennis, I'm in a similar position to you, so do tell if you make any headway with this. I'm settling for the home theatre in a box option after having looked for a an AVR-speaker package without much luck. For the bass you're looking for an active subwoofer performs better.

@Bernard, pricing and speaker options?


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Dennis, si wewe ni audio giant?? Hebu endea AV receiver utatuambia.


On 13 March 2014 09:19, Wanjohi Ndegwa <andegs2000@gmail.com> wrote:
@Bernard, can you please give the location where these are sold???

@Washington Yes some AV Receivers do come with speakers, but not all, most of the time you have to go looking for a set of good speakers separately. And they do not play movies sadly.


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Dennis, Hotpoint has this LG unit - http://www.lg.com/ae/audio/lg-HT906TA - available at Hotpoint. I just called someone there who confirms this is successor to HT965 that I have and the specs seems to agree.

In the meantime, I'd like to ask the audio giants this - does the AV receivers also come with the speakers? Do they also play movies? Excuse my ignorance on them.



On 13 March 2014 09:04, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
I guess we are audio babies :-( - @Dennis, I can't remember my model number unless I look at it or see the box :-(

./Ok3ch


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:50 AM, James Waciira <jwaciira@gmail.com> wrote:
What @Karunyu said. Home Theatre in a Box doesn't just cut it. Go AV Receiver. Problem is getting them locally. Would anyone know?

Best,
James.


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
@Dennis, I have a friend who absolutely swears by AV Receivers, he says home theatres are for audio babies, and I know for sure that you are not an audio baby! :-)


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
The sub-woofer does a nice job!



On 12 March 2014 23:01, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Wash, how's the bass, does it chuna at a very low volume? Most supermarkets confuse bass and volume. 


On Wednesday, 12 March 2014, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
I also have a 3 year old LG - Model HT965. It has BT, Ipod dock, Karaoke, USB, 2 HDMI in, 1 HDMI out...

I suggest you visit Hot Point, Sarit and see what they have there..



On 12 March 2014 22:37, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
What model? 


On Wednesday, 12 March 2014, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
Bluetooth is very basic (& a must), my 3 year old LG home theatre had it! 

./Ok3ch


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
So, 
After more than 6 years of listening to music on my Creative SBS A300s and Logitec/Sennheiser earphones , I think I'm becoming deaf and therefore no longer in a position to appreciate the bass in the Creatives. 

I would like to replace them with a hometheatre that offers some great sound reproduction in the 50 Hz range upwards. 

However, I am surprised that most of what I am seeing here (http://www.jumia.co.ke/home-theatre/)  does not offer bluetooth pairing or even DNLA. 

I thought stuff in this age should even have a mobile app to control the damn thing? Are the Koreans and Japanese running out of steam? 


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