What should i get, where, and why?

I bought a Fluke at Sears for around $100.00. Does eveything I need and is always accurate. I have used other less expensive brands but they are not always accurate especially when reading resistance (ohms). Get a digital multimeter that does voltage, current and ohms. Most of them will only do current up to 10amps but that is enough.

I bought a Fluke at Sears for around $100.00. Does eveything I need and is always accurate. I have used other less expensive brands but they are not always accurate especially when reading resistance (ohms). Get a digital multimeter that does voltage, current and ohms. Most of them will only do current up to 10amps but that is enough.

Considering you don't really need to measure accurately hardly ever, I'd just get a cheap one at a pc store or similar. The inaccuracy comment about resistance is a bit of a joke, they all use the same technique to measure it overall inaccuracy is not, but you don't need it just relative accuracy which even the cheapest piece of junk will do just fine.

PE has one on sale for $12, DVM850BL Digital Multimeter

I have a clark I got for $10 in a store on sale, it works ok.

For 99% of audio stuff, a cheap DMM will work fine.

for any normal usage the cheap ones will do fine. For working on some competition systems and system testing you'd need one with more options, but I don't think your worried about that yet. Check out places like Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes etc, they all sell cheap DMM's.

Thanks guys!

radioshack has a very user friendly meter that costs about $30. its a 22 range

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...rentPage=family