Where can I save money when buying an entertainment system?
There are a couple of areas where you could save some money on not getting the top of the line as you buy your entertainment system. First and foremost would be the cabling and the interconnects, which is essentially those cables that connect up the different components. You want to make sure you get decent cables, but they don't need to be super-expensive cabling. Once again, speaker wire is just copper with rubber around the outside. You could use lamp cord and it would still work just as well for most systems. So cabling and interconnects are the number one spot where people overspend on home entertainment systems. Number two spot where they overspend: fancy surge protectors. You want to look for surge protectors that provide protection against surges. Unless you have a bad electrical source, which typically is exhibited by weird colors or a hum on your system, you don't need to get a fancy electrical surge protector that costs hundreds or thousands of dollars. You can get one that costs $30 or $40. Those are two areas where you could skimp and not hurt the performance of your system. A third area to consider where you could save some money is on a DVD player. Most of the DVD players, non-high-definition DVD players out on the market today under $100 do a perfectly adequate job of giving you a great picture and great audio for your system. So you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on a standard DVD player or thousands of dollars on a standard DVD player. Those are the three areas I think you could save the most on.
