Real buyer questions

Keep 5 to 8% of the equipment budget aside for cables, accessories and installation. That is where it consistently lands on our real project quotes, and I would rather you plan for it than discover it.

Builds like this land in the mid-single-digit lakhs, and the projector is usually the single largest line, often rivalling the whole audio side. That is the short answer; the useful part is the anatomy.

The value series gives you the brand's core sound at sane money; the premium series upgrades the parts that touch fidelity directly. Whether you can hear the difference depends far more on your room and your volume than on the brochure.

Trade-offs, not winners, and we answered exactly this for an Agra customer with a 17 by 22 ft lounge. Short version: 7.1.2 makes sense in that room; in-wall versus floorstanding depends on how much you want the room to remain a room.

Yes, and the technique is called HT Bypass. We built exactly this for a Pune customer with a 12 by 15 ft room, and it is my default answer whenever music is more than a side interest.

Both, and knowing which is which protects you. A big gap between MRP and the offered price is normal in AV; a price far below the entire authorised market is the red flag.