hey guys.
Would like some recommendations for a friend of mine on 5.1 system for living room. Budget is ~RM4k. This is to play downloaded HD movie.
Current system is normal RM1.5k HTIB, few years old already.
Living room size is around 18ft x 20ft x 9ft.
Any comment is welcome.

Which entry level receiver is recommended?

Ok great. Will start to look from there. Maybe the budget of 4k might go up.

hey bro!! how are you?

hahaha yes, i'm into stereo for many years, still learning though.

My friend will go for either yamaha, denon or marantz receiver, and pair with his current low priced speaker for now. Will keep poisoning him with higher-end item

yo guys,

My friend finally got the yamaha rx-a2a from a&l audio (from ct seong, because his service is too good). Got himself a starke sound sw12 subwoofer for the av amp (from my other friend), and set it all up with his edifier unused satellite (s550).

It brought a big smile to him n his wife.

The yamaha design is neat, easy to clean and sounds nice. Although the ypao doesnt really gives him what he wants, but he just takes time to adjust the gain.

Now left the last speaker poison which i need to add in few months later

If anyone here has yamaha amp experience, please let me know which brand to pair with it.

Thanks so much for the heads up before this.

wow so many nice suggestions.

Ok, i'll ask him to set front channel as floorstand, do the subwoofer crawl, -ve gain from ypao, set the center channel at proper place, and annoy the neighbors by turning up the subwoofer!!