[vdr] Re: OT: DD-Receiver/Amplifier

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Gregoire Favre schrieb:
> Hello ;-)
>
> I already have a 5.1 system, but unfortunately, it's not compatible with
> the DVB-s, neither with my soundcard...
> So maybe I could just buy a 5.1 amplifier?
>
> Any suggestion?
I haven't tested with a DVB-S, but with soundcard or DXR3 the Logitech 
Z-680 works quite good. It consists of 4 satelites, a small 
center-speaker, a control pod and a relatively small subwoofer (don't 
use the factory-default settings for subwoofer, 10 minutes after 
switching on the neighbour in the flat above complained about the 
humming ;o)).

The sound certainly isn't as well as with a receiver and big boxes, but 
quite impressing for the small speakers. Even classic music sounded 
halfway well.

Pros:

- small, but good sound
- PCM, DTS, AC3, Dolby Prologic II and MPEG-audio decoding by hardware
- 6x analogue input, coax and toslink for SPDIF, additional analogue 
stereo input
- remote control

cons:

- display can't be read if distance is more than one meter
- not enough steps for controlling volume


Be careful to get a current version as prior ones have a fault in the 
control pod causing noise on the front/center-speakers.

350,- Euro at Mindfactory.

Rene




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