Got a question about practicalities. I live in a 1 bedroom apartment and want a speaker system I can use while playing computer games (50%), watching tv/movies (20%), listening to music (predominately rock, metal and punk) (20%) and using my home gym (10%). Budget is about $2k Australian, though I can flexibly spend as much as $3k if someone can convince me there is a killer app at that level, but I really want to spend that money on a new squat rack. As you can probably guess I don't have a ton of space, and my computer is predominately going to be the source. Having read the Audioholics article I was thinking:
Boston A 360 Floodstanding speakers: ($800) -See Question A.
SVS SB12-NSD or SVS SB-1000 ($700 or $750 respectively)
Yamaha RX-V475 ($420 ish) - I know I don't strictly need it, but bass management features and I can expand to 5.1 later.
Random cabling will blow the rest of the budget.
My questions are
A) I probably want to use this with my computer (my main monitor doubles as my TV) which means sitting relatively close as well - does this mean I should replace the floor standers with bookshelf speakers?
B) Have I missed any insane value picks?
C) Is the sub enough/overkill for the room? I will edit in exact measurements later, but it's not that big - about 25 square meters. I have a collection of headphones for late night listening.
