How many inputs do you need?

Jeremy,

I currently use two. One for LP12 and one for CDS.

Radio isn't very good round here so I sold my NAT101.

Occasionally I hook up a DVD player and video player when i'm compiling holiday movie tapes, so the tape in/out and monitor buttons are sometimes useful.

IFFF a super-duper Pre-amp came out that knocked the spots of a 52 and was offered in TWO versions-one at (say) £6k with only ONE input and the other at (say) £12k with a dozen inputs, I could suffer? with the cheaper option provided I could swap the LP/cd sources without switching them off.

Wishful thinking !

Cheers

Don

Jeremy,

LP12, CDP and PC

Steve B

1--LP-12
2--tuner
3--DVD
4--Playstation 2
5--Gameboy Color/Advance
6--satellite box (music/TV/&internet sound)
7--broadcast TV
8--VCR
9--cassette deck
10-open reel (for recording live radio broadcasts)
11-Rega 78 (when not out on loan)
12-laptop

Ron The Mon

[This message was edited by Ron The Mon on SATURDAY 04 August 2001 at 08:43.]

Like most people I think: turntable and CD player.
I wouldn't want a tuner because I listen to rock, pop and dance music, and I can't bear those compressed broadcasts.
I wouldn't want a recording device because the copies are never as good as the originals.

It's always a nice day for it, have a good one
Steve

3 Cd,vinyl & TV, can play tapes and radio in the car, crap at home.

If you daisy chain your AV stuff with scarts so that you can vcr your sat/digtv/dvd you may find you can put the sound into one input of the pre.

Turntable, CDP, one tape loop (for CDR/headphone amp).

Anything else gets routed through a dedicated AV rig.

John

1 - lp12
2 - cdi
3 - nat03
4 - akai gx7
5 - dvd
6 - sstereo video

Arye

dbl post

[This message was edited by Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus on MONDAY 06 August 2001 at 09:32.]

On my 52 as follows

1 LP12/Troika
2 CDSii
3 Denon Tuner
4 Digital Satellite Radio/Tv
5 VCR
6 Tape Deck

If needed in future input 4 can be freed up by routing Sat via VCR as Jez suggested.

...hooking up extra stuff tends to degrade the performance of the system.

If ya gotta hook up all that stuff, may as well just get a Sony (or whatever) AV amplifier thingy and be done with it.

Or you could pawn all that stuff and buy a 52 with the proceeds

- GregB

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Main system 3 out of 5 inputs on 32.5 used:
Turntable
CD player
TV (Scart connecting video and Sky Digibox to TV)

Second system all three Nait 1 inputs used:
Turntable #2
Mixing desk for music gear
Computer

Tony.