I Need Help !
Posted by: Kane on 04 June 2010
I have always been into and loved hi fi.
From my LPT to my Gyrodec from my Linn LK amps to my CDX and now my Uniti and Nas drive.
I have just got my self a Sony 40 inch LCD TV and a Playstation 3 and all i wanted to know is how would I go about putting these together and making a good to two channel system or do i need a sub. My system at the moment is a Uniti, Stageline,Gyrodec,SME 309 and B&W CM7.
Kane
From my LPT to my Gyrodec from my Linn LK amps to my CDX and now my Uniti and Nas drive.
I have just got my self a Sony 40 inch LCD TV and a Playstation 3 and all i wanted to know is how would I go about putting these together and making a good to two channel system or do i need a sub. My system at the moment is a Uniti, Stageline,Gyrodec,SME 309 and B&W CM7.
Kane
Posted on: 04 June 2010 by mongo
Hi Kane.
Simplest way is a two stereo connections to the uniti and a s/h Rel, a quake might do for films, 200e, or better, for music though.
Or, invest in a Dacmagic or similar and feed the toslink from the telly and ps3 to that, then the dac to the uniti and the same Rel sub and you're off.
Good luck, Paul.
Simplest way is a two stereo connections to the uniti and a s/h Rel, a quake might do for films, 200e, or better, for music though.
Or, invest in a Dacmagic or similar and feed the toslink from the telly and ps3 to that, then the dac to the uniti and the same Rel sub and you're off.
Good luck, Paul.
Posted on: 04 June 2010 by Kane
Many thanks Mongo.
Just one thing more would you say the Naim Dac would be overkill for this app ?
Kane
Just one thing more would you say the Naim Dac would be overkill for this app ?
Kane
Posted on: 05 June 2010 by mongo
Hi Kane,
I have just found out that the Uniti has its own dac inputs. That would be perfectly good enough for tv and ps3 i would think. My bad!
As for £2000 for an external dac?
I do think that might be overkill.
If you have that much money spare you might consider selling the B&W's and getting some N-sats and Naim sub.
That would I imagine be a very fine set up indeed, for films, gaming, and especially music.
Good luck,
Paul.
I have just found out that the Uniti has its own dac inputs. That would be perfectly good enough for tv and ps3 i would think. My bad!
As for £2000 for an external dac?
I do think that might be overkill.
If you have that much money spare you might consider selling the B&W's and getting some N-sats and Naim sub.
That would I imagine be a very fine set up indeed, for films, gaming, and especially music.
Good luck,
Paul.
Posted on: 05 June 2010 by Kane
Thanks Mongo,
So all i need is two coaxial leads or two optical lead to the Uniti and the the sub ?
Again many thanks for all your help.
Kane
So all i need is two coaxial leads or two optical lead to the Uniti and the the sub ?
Again many thanks for all your help.
Kane
Posted on: 06 June 2010 by Kane
quote:Originally posted by Kane:
Thanks Mongo,
So all i need is two coaxial leads or two optical lead to the Uniti and then the sub ?
Again many thanks for all your help.
Kane
Posted on: 07 June 2010 by Richard Dane
Kane,
best connection between your TV and PS3 and the Uniti would be by optical s/pdif leads. This will ensure they are electrically isolated from the Uniti. Make sure that the digital outputs of both are set to 2 channel PCM rather than multichannel bitstream. You should be able to do this in their set-up menus.
best connection between your TV and PS3 and the Uniti would be by optical s/pdif leads. This will ensure they are electrically isolated from the Uniti. Make sure that the digital outputs of both are set to 2 channel PCM rather than multichannel bitstream. You should be able to do this in their set-up menus.
Posted on: 07 June 2010 by Alfa4life
quote:Originally posted by mongo:
As for £2000 for an external dac?
I do think that might be overkill.
If you have that much money spare you might consider selling the B&W's and getting some N-sats and Naim sub.
That would I imagine be a very fine set up indeed, for films, gaming, and especially music.
Good luck,
Paul.
Hi Kane
Found myself in a similar situation to you a year ago... got rid of my Linn system and went for the Uniti as a solution for music and TV.
As Mongo says 2K on the DAC would be better spent on N-sat / N-sub which is exactly what I did.
I have connected a bluray via coax, Vbox and Mac mini with optical. All sound superb through the Uniti.
Do you need a sub? it does bring a lot extra to the party in my room when playing music and gives films that extra kick that cinema fans love.
Beauty of the N-sub is I can have one preset for Music and another for Films. The N-sub is connected to Uniti with Chord cobra 3 cable.
Have fun
Graham
Posted on: 07 June 2010 by Kane
Thank's for your advice Graham.
I've just recevied my TV and it has a toshlink out do you think i could run this output to the Uniti and connect the PS 3 & my V box plus via HDMI or should i run two toshlink to the Uniti ?
I've just recevied my TV and it has a toshlink out do you think i could run this output to the Uniti and connect the PS 3 & my V box plus via HDMI or should i run two toshlink to the Uniti ?
Posted on: 07 June 2010 by Kane
Thank Richard
for your reply.
for your reply.
Posted on: 07 June 2010 by Alfa4life
quote:Originally posted by Kane:
Thank's for your advice Graham.
I've just recevied my TV and it has a toshlink out do you think i could run this output to the Uniti and connect the PS 3 & my V box plus via HDMI or should i run two toshlink to the Uniti ?
Providing that you can configure the output from TV to be 2 channel PCM as Richard stated it should work. Don't have this output on my TV so was not an option for myself. Perhaps just buy or borrow some cables from your dealer and see if it makes any difference to sound quality.
Graham
Posted on: 11 June 2010 by Kane
Thank you everyone for your help.
I have just received my Toshlink cable & I've just had a play with everything. All i can say is wow, It works so well all i have to get now is a small sub for Movies & gaming.
I have just received my Toshlink cable & I've just had a play with everything. All i can say is wow, It works so well all i have to get now is a small sub for Movies & gaming.