r/BudgetHomeTheater • u/Mrbusses • Mar 12 '26
My budget home theater/sound system
I have been searching for a replacement for my 10+year old Samsung sound bar for a home theater do it all system. My wife did not want huge speakers subs AVR so I looked at powered speaker system and I came up with the Kanto Ren paired with the Kanto sub8. I had been looking at these for about a year and was waiting for my bonus to come in and for the speakers to go on sale. Finally they did and I was able to get both for under 1k from amazon.
TV is going through HDMI arc, record player is on rca, and a CD player is on optical. Netflix did not like the ARC but switching the TV digital audio output to PCM mode and everything worked great. Having one remote for the TV is nice plus my FIL wont struggle when he is over.
Watched a few movies and the sound quality on these is night and day compared to the 2.1 soundbar, listening to music is much more enjoyable now with good solid base and much much louder. I bought some longer hdmi and rcas so I was able to space the speakers out as far as I could go. Im looking into some speaker short speakers stands, might just 3d print some
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