I'm no audiophile but I like good sound. I have a nice system I put together almost ten years ago. It has a 550 watt Pioneer 5.1 receiver with four Polk towers, a Polk center speaker and a Velodyne subwoofer. Watching football I've sometimes been able to make out the conversations of people "sitting behind me." Fun stuff. Music is strictly from CDs, and of course I switch it over to stereo. Sounds good to my uneducated ear. Would love to play with vinyl and a good turntable just for grins, but I'm through spending.
On Nov 22, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: > On 2010-11-22 13:30, John Celio wrote: >> I know there are a lot of tech-heads here, so I hope y'all don't mind my >> asking such an off-topic question. Please feel free to reply off-list. > > Mine's pretty simple. Computer and game console and DirecTV receiver all > feed an A/V Receiver. It feeds a 5.1 speaker system and a TV display. It's > really pretty simple but the number of cables can get overwhelming in some > cases. > > The DirecTV box (or cable box, I'd suspect) goes into the receiver over HDMI. > > The TV comes out of the receiver over HDMI. I don't use the TV audio, but it > comes out of the receiver on the same HDMI cable. > > The computer video goes into the receiver on HDMI, and the audio goes in on > optical, due to limitations in the hardware in the computer. Theoretically, > this should be doable with only the HDMI cable. > > The game console goes into the receiver as RCA video plus optical audio. > > The CD player goes into the receiver as optical. > > The computer has a second video out that goes to a dedicated 23" display so I > can dink with things on the computer while the A/V outputs are on some other > source. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
