How important is a good sound system to you?

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How important is a good sound system to you?

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Its fairly important to me, but I can live with even the most horrible of laptop speakers and still have an enjoyable experience gaming (Im looking at you T61). I feel without good sound though, a game looses most of its immersivness. Id take an awesome sound system over a nice graphics card or HDTV any day.
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I can't watch movies or play my games without a sound system at all.
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I used to not really care about sound, the little speakers on my CRT was fine. Then I got a Surround Sound system! I still have the CRT! But now I can hardly stand listening to sound without that system!
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I have a crappy dolby digital system on my main lcd. I am gonna upgrade to some HD sound soon and move the current system to the CRT HDTV in the bed room. I cant wait. Good sound = Very Important
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I'm playing on a fairly expensive headset which I use for almost all of my gaming; I like to play loud, and I don't have the luxury of being able to crank a speaker set up that high. I wouldn't say that sound quality is incredibly important to me, but I definitely can't stand playing on a cheap generic headset. There is a static and hissing sound that drives me crazy on cheap speakers.
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I can't watch movies or play my games without a good surround sound system at all... I totally agree!! 8) 7.1 FTW!!
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It's important to me. I feel sound adds another layer to the full game and visual media experience. Even if I'm using an earlier 8-16bit system. :)
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Not very important actually. As long as its not very tinny or distorted sounding its alright to me. Most speakers built into TV's are fine IMO.
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For my movies and current gen stuff I run a Yamaha surround amp. For my retro game systems, I run an old Pioneer stereo amp that still has amazing sound after 15 years of use.
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I don't really care about good sound,but sometimes I turn on my surround sound when I play certain games when I feel like it.
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