New amp for my VT20

[widget1978]

Hi

i have taken delivery of a Vt20 and also the DMPBDT300 blu ray player to go with it. I am now on the look out for a decent amp to use. I currently have a yamaha rx-v2600 about 3 years old and have been over the moon with it. Using the Keff 2005-1 speakers. I'm guessing that there aren't that many amps on the market and that they will be rolling them out from now on really.

Any ideas/suggestions?????

cheers

 

[paulr2006]

Just out of interest why do you want to change? my only reason for asking is that if it's to gain the HD sound formats you can of course do this via the 5.1 phono outputs from the player to your Amp. the sound quality is excellent & saves you the cost of an Amp. ok you don't get something lighting up with True HD or DTS HD MA but hey it works & works well

 

[widget1978]

The amp doesn't support the 1.4 hdmi though does it? I have everything running through the amp. Won't i have to plug the tv straight into the blu ray when watching 3D? Will i not lose out on quality?

As you can tell i'm very new to this.

 

[paulr2006]

The amp doesn't support the 1.4 hdmi though does it? I have everything running through the amp. Won't i have to plug the tv straight into the blu ray when watching 3D? Will i not lose out on quality?

As you can tell i'm very new to this.

Your blu ray player has two outputs, a 1.4 & sub 1.3; you should ideally put the 1.4 into the TV & the 1.3 into the Amp. (assuming the Amp. accepts Audio via HDMI & it's not just a switching circuit)

However I don't think your Amp. decodes the HD sound formats therefore you would be better going from HDMI 1.4 to direct to the TV & then use the 5.1 phono outs from your player to the 5.1 phono inputs of your Amp. this way your player will decode the HD sound & pass it on to the Amp. you just need a six phono to 6 phono lead & no you will not loose quality it will sound great Like This

 

[widget1978]

Sorry to be a pain. How will I know that the amp is not just a switching circuit?

So from the amp i have an input from the blu ray and sky hd, both hdmi and then from the blu ray also i use the phono to the amp. I still have just the one input to the tele. This comes from the amp. Will i still be able to watch the 3D films this way or does the blu ray have to be plugged straight into the tv itself?