Has anyone experienced full 7.1 from DVD5/AV2?

Posted by: Massimo Bertola on 14 April 2009

To remain within the dynosaur fence, I wonder if anyone has taken advantage of a full 7.1 setup (extra card, extra amp, extra Snaic4 and 2 more speakers) for DVD-A replay? Up to date video issues are discussed elsewhere in this forum; I am just curious to know if there's another jerk like me who'd love to just use those last Din sockets..
Posted on: 14 April 2009 by garyi
There is just so little in the way of material, I just don't see the point.

Plus my wife would go chicken oriental if I wanted yet another pair of speakers in the living room lol
Posted on: 14 April 2009 by Occean
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Plus my wife would go chicken oriental if I wanted yet another pair of speakers in the living room lol


Snap!
Posted on: 14 April 2009 by Massimo Bertola
I see your points. Opinions still welcome!
Posted on: 14 April 2009 by tonym
I've been running a 7.1 system for a couple of years or so, using four n-Sats as surrounds.

Whilst it's true there is a dearth of 7.1 material, nevertheless what there is sounds really impressive. Not sure if I'd recommend it to anyone else nowadays - when I went 7.1 in pre-Blu-Ray days the number of disks so encoded was on the increase, (although I do note there is a steady increase in 7.1 BluRay disks) and it's a lot of dosh for what may be a relatively modest improvement over 5.1, depending on your room.
Posted on: 14 April 2009 by Massimo Bertola
tonym,

thanks for your experience. I may also leave my 5.1 system and just rely on the 5.1 DVD-A I'd find. If I understand well, though, I can only reply DVD-As via the DVD5's analogue outputs. Would I then just need a pair of normal, 5-pin, 180° din interconnects, or do I need some special cable?

Thanks, Massimo
Posted on: 14 April 2009 by john R1
Maxbertola, hope the dvd-a board in the dvd5 is better than the one in the n-vi, cause the one in the n-vi is at best pretty poor.
Posted on: 14 April 2009 by Massimo Bertola
I am sorry to hear that. There definitely are very different opinions about the same objects. In general, it seems to me that Naim's involvement in AV has been the source of the most controversial positions.
Anyway, how could you describe the n-Vi's DVD-A card's poorness?
Thanks.
Posted on: 15 April 2009 by john R1
maxbertola, i have around 8 dvd-a discs, all the discs have other surround soundtracks apart from the advanced resolution, the problem with the n-vi is on 4 or 5 of the discs the n-vi does not give you an option to select any surround format apart from the advanced resolution one, the worst disc is tubular bells which has pauses in the music which should not be there, tubular bells also has a dd 5.1 soundtrack but you can't select that on an n-vi, i did question naim about this when i got my first n-vi, but like the n-vi and dvd-a there responce was also pretty poor.