New Stereo

Posted October 29th, 2008 at 6:33pm by Admiral Michael

Ok, so after hearing my friend's PS3 on surround system my gaming setup seemed somewhat.. lacking. That and you can only watch movies thru the TV's speakers for so long.

So last Saturday I went down to a local electronics store (EHR) and bought a system. I chose one of those no payment/no interest for a year deals since I don't have all the funds right now.

So here is what I got:

Denon AVR-1909
Paradigm Cinema 70CTv.3 speaker package which includes:

The speakers in the links are silver but I have black ones.

I love the receiver, it takes all the analog inputs (component, s-video and composite) and converts it to HDMI so I only have to connect one cable to my TV.

The receiver has a pass-through feature on the HDMI where it will pass-through the last selected HDMI input when the receiver is off, that way I can watch TV without the reveiver on. It also takes the audio from the HDMI cable which means less cables and I can use the optical for other things.

Here is how I connected everything:

HDMI
- XBox 360
- PVR
- Extra unused input
Component
- Original XBox (XBMC) and optical
S-Video
- Nintendo Wii

I just bought the Component/Optical cable from eBay, so when it arrives I will be able to use optical instead of the analog Red/White I'm using now.

Pics:

The area where I put everything was a storage cupboard like the one to the left but I didn't have any other place to put it all so I took the doors off and used it for that instead. I think it looks alright, although I lost quite a bit of storage room.

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	nice i just use the pc for everything - using optical out (RCA) (TOS on other pc) all in 24-96hz on logitech d550 5.1 - does what i need it to do
	Posted October 30th, 2008 at 12:39am by Dark Atheist

	I used to do that since I had a nice speaker set. But I use my laptop as my main computer now, the desktop is just for grunt computing processing. I watch alot of movies and play some games on my 32" LCD HDTV now. A surround stereo was just the next step. Now the next step after this is a universal remote. Maybe a Harmony 880 or so.
	Posted October 30th, 2008 at 3:37am by Admiral Michael

	Just took some more pics, enjoy!
	Posted October 30th, 2008 at 4:14am by Admiral Michael

	you need to pimp your bed!!!
	Posted October 30th, 2008 at 3:15pm by Dark Atheist

	yes you bed is lacking gadgets, what give, i have to say you are a neat person.... if that was me, there'd be cables all over the place.
	Posted October 30th, 2008 at 4:29pm by lancer

	nice set up Mike
	Posted October 31st, 2008 at 2:22pm by tdinc

	Seriously nice set-up there. That is the next port of call for me, my speakers are OK.... but I really need to upgrade my decoder!
	Posted November 2nd, 2008 at 8:33pm by indyjones

I just ordered 1 2ft and 1 3ft HDMI cable along with a 8ft optical cable from http://www.bluejeanscable.com/ yesterday and it's already on the truck for delivery

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I had to buy a new cable for my orig XBox since I need optical now. Got that the other day, man what a nice cable. I was having an issue when I turned my ceiling fan on or off I would loose the picture on the XBox (it would come back), this new cable fixed it. I had a feeling it was interference and the old component cable was a cheapie and didn't look like it was shielded.

Posted November 6th, 2008 at 8:01pm by Admiral Michael Admiral Michael is offline

	Got my cables the next day and they are awesome. I can finally use the original XBox watch movies (it's my media center) and get actual surround. The stereo does an awesome job splitting up 2 channel audio such as music into 5.1. I love it!
	Posted November 10th, 2008 at 3:48am by Admiral Michael

	Very cool setup !
	Posted November 11th, 2008 at 11:29pm by Shamus MacNoob

	If you haven any movies encoded in DTS try that, it is light years ahead of Dolby Digital 5.1. Last of the Mohicans, and there are some other ones that are DTS. Excellent sounding movies.
	Posted November 19th, 2008 at 4:09am by falconguard