Boston Acoustics Avidea

[1sty]

As christmas is coming up along with the spending time indoors season, I figured a home theater in a box review is in order

My Compnay recently became Boston Acoustics home audio dealers. I installed our first Avidea system last night. It was the Avidea 610, http://www.bostonacoustics.com/hs_product.asp?ProductID=295&CategoryID=46

It has 4 speakers, 1 center channle speaker, a sub, and an integrated DVD player/reciever. It has everything you need to get a home theater going in one box.

Without any directions I had the systems wired up and going with a cable box, VCR and TV within 2 hours. Thats with all speakers placed and the wires all tied up neatly. This includes programming the BA remote to control the TV, VCR, and cable box. It sounded really good for 5 small speakers and a sub. I was actualy impressed. The customers loved it and wanted to watch the war scenes in Gods and Generals right away.

A few cool things about this system is that this system will up or down convert every video singal for you. This means you never have to change your TV'v input. You can run S-video for the cable box, composite for the VCR and component from a seperate DVD player and all can go to the TV over the component output on the avidea. Also there is no reason for an extetnal DVD player as one is built into the recieve and looked really good. Also the system automaticly chooses the best available audio setting and switches to it for you. So as you switch from a CD to a DTS disc, the system will switch sorround modes automaticly.

For a while I was looking for the menu to get into and make sure to set everything up. Once I found it, I relized, there wasn't anything to setup. Its all done automaitcly. My customers where stoaked with its perfomance and so was I.

Retail on this baby is $1200 but I heard some christmas pricing might drop to $1100.
Enjoy.

 

[pro00]

boston accousitcs simply rocks!!!!!

(true, they are expensive!)

 

[1sty]

boston accousitcs simply rocks!!!!!

(true, they are expensive!)

How so? This thing easily beats any offering of Bose or the Sony One system and for about the same price.

 

[pro00]

I am just talking about the amout of money involved in spending a nice home system like this.
I am pretty sure, there are systems out there that prolly go into the $4-5K range if i recall correctly when i was in myer emco or tweeters and still won't be half as decent.
I know this becaue i have boson accoustics in the ride.....and i did have other speakers in other cars previous to this.
but, i am no expert in the home entertainment system buisness, but, what i meant is that it is a lot of money still to spend, in whatever regards
didn't mean to seem stupid, sorry
;-)

 

[1sty]

I am just talking about the amout of money involved in spending a nice home system like this.
I am pretty sure, there are systems out there that prolly go into the $4-5K range if i recall correctly when i was in myer emco or tweeters and still won't be half as decent.
I know this becaue i have boson accoustics in the ride.....and i did have other speakers in other cars previous to this.
but, i am no expert in the home entertainment system buisness, but, what i meant is that it is a lot of money still to spend, in whatever regards
didn't mean to seem stupid, sorry
;-)

It didn;t sound stupid. Their are certainly other systems that are less expensive but none of them are this complete or have near this many features. Much like your speakers. Sure there are a ton of cheaper ones but how many would you want to actualy listen to?

This is really at the bottom of expense when it comes to an all in one home theater. The next version, the Avidea 770 is $4000. Compared to spending the same $1200 on 5 speakers, a sub, a reciever and a DVD player... the avidea is a far better value.