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QuinnDexter
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Hi All,
I got reading a friends what hi-fi mag the other day, and got the bug for suping up my audio visual setup at home. Believe me when I say it was previously rubbish. I am new to all the talk etc (2 weeks ago i didnt even know the difference between dts and dpl!!
1) 2 yearold 5.1 grundig piece of cr*p dvd player with built in receiver and amp, the speakers (supplied with the grundig) hummed, surround sound was practically non existant- plus i had to turn it on and off 10 - 15 times to get it to play a dvd. sigh.
2) a media PC (1.4Ghz duron etc) for playing divx an games on the tv
3) ps2 for san andreas (dont seem to play anything else these days)
4) my beloved sky+
5) TV 32" Panasonic 100H flatscreen CRT (2 rgb scart, 2 normal scart, 1 yellow phono video, 1 svideo)
I turned to ebay as i only had about £400 to spend, poor for new equipment.
I now have (yet to connect all together)
Yamaha RX-V630 receiver
Pioneer DV-636D dvd player
Sony surround sound speakers
1 X SONY 50W SUBWOOFER SA WMS 225
1 X SONY 120W CENTRE SPEAKER SS CN225
4 X SONY 100W SATELLITE SPEAKERS SS V225
MKII Kameleon 6in1 remote
Whole bunch a cables
I'm planning on connections as follows:
Video sources by S-Video connected to the Yam
Audio sources by optical tos link PS2, SKY+ / PC - jack to phono / DVD digi-coax & 5.1 phono to phono
Then Yamaha - TV via s-video
Does this sound like the best set up? I think the idea of routing the video and audio through the yamaha is simplest idea for controlling the whole set up. Will i loose much quality routing the video through another source?
I'm not too fussy about the whole thing (ie. i only spent 120 quid on all the cables necessary for the above) and am new to all this stuff.
Is there an area on this forum for legacy equipment purchasing, building a good system with older parts etc? It took a long time to find the bits i thought were going to be acceptable for my first system, i dont know how it would be rated compared to a system of similar components nowadays, has everything really improved that much in the last 3 years?
I recon the weakest parts are the speakers and cableing but it might be all cr*p in the eyes of the new audiophiles.
Your thoughts would help me sleep at night
Q
I got reading a friends what hi-fi mag the other day, and got the bug for suping up my audio visual setup at home. Believe me when I say it was previously rubbish. I am new to all the talk etc (2 weeks ago i didnt even know the difference between dts and dpl!!
1) 2 yearold 5.1 grundig piece of cr*p dvd player with built in receiver and amp, the speakers (supplied with the grundig) hummed, surround sound was practically non existant- plus i had to turn it on and off 10 - 15 times to get it to play a dvd. sigh.
2) a media PC (1.4Ghz duron etc) for playing divx an games on the tv
3) ps2 for san andreas (dont seem to play anything else these days)
4) my beloved sky+
5) TV 32" Panasonic 100H flatscreen CRT (2 rgb scart, 2 normal scart, 1 yellow phono video, 1 svideo)
I turned to ebay as i only had about £400 to spend, poor for new equipment.
I now have (yet to connect all together)
Yamaha RX-V630 receiver
Pioneer DV-636D dvd player
Sony surround sound speakers
1 X SONY 50W SUBWOOFER SA WMS 225
1 X SONY 120W CENTRE SPEAKER SS CN225
4 X SONY 100W SATELLITE SPEAKERS SS V225
MKII Kameleon 6in1 remote
Whole bunch a cables
I'm planning on connections as follows:
Video sources by S-Video connected to the Yam
Audio sources by optical tos link PS2, SKY+ / PC - jack to phono / DVD digi-coax & 5.1 phono to phono
Then Yamaha - TV via s-video
Does this sound like the best set up? I think the idea of routing the video and audio through the yamaha is simplest idea for controlling the whole set up. Will i loose much quality routing the video through another source?
I'm not too fussy about the whole thing (ie. i only spent 120 quid on all the cables necessary for the above) and am new to all this stuff.
Is there an area on this forum for legacy equipment purchasing, building a good system with older parts etc? It took a long time to find the bits i thought were going to be acceptable for my first system, i dont know how it would be rated compared to a system of similar components nowadays, has everything really improved that much in the last 3 years?
I recon the weakest parts are the speakers and cableing but it might be all cr*p in the eyes of the new audiophiles.
Your thoughts would help me sleep at night
Q