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New member Username: KlammerPost Number: 4 Registered: Oct-05 | I am looking for a reciever to support 5 speakers. I want to do HDTV to a plasma and connect it all together. Suggestions? |
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Gold Member Username: Edster922Abubala, Ababala The Occupation Post Number: 2721 Registered: Mar-05 | Panasonic sa-xr70, older brother to the sa-xr55: https://www.ecoustics.com/electronics/forum/home-audio/160136.html http://forum.ascendacoustics.com/showthread.php?t=1251&page=1&p p=10 http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=530504 http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=417894 The two are basically identical except for the 70 having HDMI and the 55 does not. |
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New member Username: KlammerPost Number: 5 Registered: Oct-05 | Edster922, Thanks for the suggestion. That looks like a good unit at a resonable price. I will be getting a Dish HD receiver and probably take the HDDI out of there into the reciever and out of the receiver into the Plasma TV. So that should work out. My DVD players do not have an HDDI slot. Another question, if I did get a DVD in the future with an HDDI slot, the Panasonic only has the one slot. Are there HDDI Splitters where I could bring both the DVD and the Dish HD receiver into the Panasonic Receiver? Or is there a smarter way to do this? |
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Silver Member Username: CheapskatePost Number: 483 Registered: Mar-04 | get the panasonic SA-XR70. i own an SA-XR55 and love it to death, but had i known that it would improve my old speakers so much to the point that i'm not getting the magnepan 4 ohm speakers it was intended to power and eventually biamp, i would have spent the extra $50 for the SA-XR70 (big brother to the 55) instead for high rez digital ins. nearly ALL DVD players only send 16/44 data from what i read somewhere which totally defeats the purpose of owning SACD and DVD-A (and eventually HD-DVD and/or bluray) discs to begin with. get HDMI and you're more prepared for high rez digital. edster and i love our panny recievers. mine beat the tar out of my old onkyo in every way: better treble speed and detail with alot less grain deeper tighter bass faster more powerful dynamics a HUGE detailed image and ESPECIALLY an awesome midrange that really makes vocals sound lifelike. not only that, but it's prologic IIx decoder spanks the onkyo's PL II decoder. must be the "x". LOL class-d amps kick major butt. i'll NEVER own an old school inefficient class A/B amp ever again. read the reviews for class-d amps which get raves from the lowly $30 sonic impact 15wpc class-t battery powered unit to the $20,000 halcros. every review for class-d that i've read has been favorable to an out and out rave. i can't stop raving about my panny... the cheapest route to full powered class-d, and that even includes REAR channes! my onkyo never did that either! LOL |
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Silver Member Username: CheapskatePost Number: 484 Registered: Mar-04 | why get 5 speakers... when you can have 7? |
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New member Username: KlammerPost Number: 6 Registered: Oct-05 | The house I am getting has 5 built in speakers. Three on the wall above where the Plasma will go and two in the ceiling behind. It is a drop ceiling in the Media Room so I could always add 2 more. |
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Bronze Member Username: SausePost Number: 48 Registered: Oct-04 | The new HTR-5990 by Yamaha has HDMI switching capibilities. ANd it converts everthing you plug into it to hdmi so you really never have to change your imput on the tv. It also is 7.1 and has speaker outputs for a second zone and a 3rd if you only go 5.1. |