Hi All,
I had done some research & amps/speakers auditioning & came to the conslusion that i need to make the setup to suit my requirements.
My thinking is as follows:
System will be basically a 2.1 or 2.2 stereo with provision for occasional 5.1 type use.
Likely sources are DVD player(movies & music), Ipod, Laptop (for music & movies including HD) & later on a BD player.
The inputs that the unit will have are 2 optical, 2 Digital co-axial (RCA), 3 stereo inputs.
The digital signal will be decoded by a DAC chip & the Front Left & Front Right signals will be forwarded to the crossover module. The centre & surround signal will be directly forwarded to the amplifier inputs.
The crossover module will have a 4 way filter as follows:
0 - 100 Hz for subwoofer
100-800 Hz for mid bass
800-4000 Hz for midrange
above 4000 Hz for tweeter.
Needless to say there will be seperate crossover for L & R channels. Also there will be some provision for fine tuning the crossover frequencies & damping to match the speakers.
Output from each range will go to a seperate amplifier module which will be connected to the speaker.
LAter on I will add amplifiers for the centre & surround channels ( no active crossovers for these.)
IS there any benefit of having seperate subwoofer for the L & R channels?
Is there anyway of extracting digital (optical or co-ax) signal from the IPod?
What do the experts think of this plan?
I had done some research & amps/speakers auditioning & came to the conslusion that i need to make the setup to suit my requirements.
My thinking is as follows:
System will be basically a 2.1 or 2.2 stereo with provision for occasional 5.1 type use.
Likely sources are DVD player(movies & music), Ipod, Laptop (for music & movies including HD) & later on a BD player.
The inputs that the unit will have are 2 optical, 2 Digital co-axial (RCA), 3 stereo inputs.
The digital signal will be decoded by a DAC chip & the Front Left & Front Right signals will be forwarded to the crossover module. The centre & surround signal will be directly forwarded to the amplifier inputs.
The crossover module will have a 4 way filter as follows:
0 - 100 Hz for subwoofer
100-800 Hz for mid bass
800-4000 Hz for midrange
above 4000 Hz for tweeter.
Needless to say there will be seperate crossover for L & R channels. Also there will be some provision for fine tuning the crossover frequencies & damping to match the speakers.
Output from each range will go to a seperate amplifier module which will be connected to the speaker.
LAter on I will add amplifiers for the centre & surround channels ( no active crossovers for these.)
IS there any benefit of having seperate subwoofer for the L & R channels?
Is there anyway of extracting digital (optical or co-ax) signal from the IPod?
What do the experts think of this plan?