Question:
can anyone recommend a home cinema kit for a dvd player that has a DD5.1/DTS built into the player.
preferebly a kit with an optical/coaxical input.
im on a budget BTW
any suggestions
thanks
:)
how about the vs-10 from yamaha kicking around in the bargain forum
It won't use your on border decoder though, but does that really matter.
The Yamaha has optical in.
Its a fantastic piece of kit
If you have a player with onboard DD5.1 decoding (which your post suggests you have) you can use a pro-logic amp with 6-Channel inputs, this wont use the optical output from the DVD player though, it will use 6 seperate phone leads.
Alternatively, as suggested above, you could ignore the players onboard decoder, get a standard Dolby Digital amp and use the optical output from your player.
thanks guys,
neilalford, will using the 6 seperate phono leads give the same sound quality as the optical/coaxical or will it be poorer quality.
thanks
m8
:)
Hard to say really, depends on the particular player and amp and basically which has the best decoder.
I would generally expect the amp to handle it better, unless you have a particularly good DVD player and a rubbish amp, so you would probably be better off getting an amp with a dolby digital/dts decoder and ignoring the onboard decoder on your player. Generally these days a dolby digital amp will cost very little more than a pro-logic amp.
Only possibility is that you could maybe pick up an end of line or second hand bargain on a high quality pro-logic amp. Just make sure that it has 6 external inputs to accept the output from the player. Unless you have a particularly good DVD player though you would probably still be better off with a dolby digital amp.
preferebly a kit with an optical/coaxical input.
im on a budget BTW
any suggestions
thanks
:)
Answers:
how about the vs-10 from yamaha kicking around in the bargain forum
It won't use your on border decoder though, but does that really matter.
The Yamaha has optical in.
Its a fantastic piece of kit
Answers:
If you have a player with onboard DD5.1 decoding (which your post suggests you have) you can use a pro-logic amp with 6-Channel inputs, this wont use the optical output from the DVD player though, it will use 6 seperate phone leads.
Alternatively, as suggested above, you could ignore the players onboard decoder, get a standard Dolby Digital amp and use the optical output from your player.
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thanks guys,
neilalford, will using the 6 seperate phono leads give the same sound quality as the optical/coaxical or will it be poorer quality.
thanks
m8
:)
Answers:
Hard to say really, depends on the particular player and amp and basically which has the best decoder.
I would generally expect the amp to handle it better, unless you have a particularly good DVD player and a rubbish amp, so you would probably be better off getting an amp with a dolby digital/dts decoder and ignoring the onboard decoder on your player. Generally these days a dolby digital amp will cost very little more than a pro-logic amp.
Only possibility is that you could maybe pick up an end of line or second hand bargain on a high quality pro-logic amp. Just make sure that it has 6 external inputs to accept the output from the player. Unless you have a particularly good DVD player though you would probably still be better off with a dolby digital amp.
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