Pricey Pseudo-Surround Home Cinema Kit From Jamo November 14, 2006

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£500 is not cheap. You can get a respectable 5.1 surround sound system for that kind of money. So, why then would you want to pay that much for a 2.1 fake surround system? For some people, style and size is more important than the real deal so here goes.

Your cash will get you this good-looking, tiny DVD player/receiver, two little cube speakers and a subwoofer from quality audio house, Jamo. The receiver uses SRS Virtual Surround system to create the illusion of surround from just two speakers.

I can’t knock it since I haven’t tested it but I would have thought you’d need something a bit bigger, or more specialised, to pull this off properly. Maybe like Yamaha’s YSP series speaker.

Jamo’s S 260 HCS 21 system comes in glossy black or white.-Martin Lynch

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