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Old 15-12-2012, 20:55
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Sorting myself a little pub room for myself. The room is about 5 foot by 9 foot. I will have a 3dTV in there and also games consoles. Is a sound bar the best way to go as I am assuming its not worth putting a 5.1 system in with all the speakers due to the size of the room. If I was to do that I need to do it before the carpet goes down. I will also want to play music from my iPhone/ipad through the system as well.

If I get a system with one HDMI input is it easy enough to use a HDMI splitter ?

Thanks in advance for any replies.
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Old 15-12-2012, 21:14
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A HDMI splitter is to take one HDMI output and split it to two HDMI inputs, eg 1 Blu-Ray player to 2 TVs. I assume that is not what you mean. If you want to connect two HDMI devices to one input you need a switch. A splitter will not work in reverse.
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Old 15-12-2012, 21:31
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Cheers so if my sound device only has 1 HDMI input I can get a switch with could for example have a TV and PS3 connected.
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Old 15-12-2012, 22:14
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No it would not work like that.

The HDMI socket on a TV is an INPUT not an output. It would connect to an OUTPUT on the sound system. The PS3 HDMI is an OUTPUT which connects to an INPUT on the sound system. You only need a switch to connect two HDMI outputs to a single HDMI input.

To get sound from a TV to the sound system via HDMI requires a TV and sound system that support Audio Return Channel on HDMI. If one device does not have ARC then you would need some other method to get audio from TV to sound system, eg a digital audio connection.

You may not even need a switch anyway. You could connect everything to the TV and just take an audio feed out of the TV to the sound system. With the right TV the sound from whatever you are watching at the time should be fed to the sound system.

You would only need to connect separately to the sound system anything that is audio only, eg the iPod. For example this sound bar has two optical digital inputs which would do for the TV and one other device and an analogue input you could use for the likes of an iPod (using the headphone jack on the iPod)

http://www.richersounds.com/product/...20a/lg-nb2420a

This one has HDMI, 3 inputs for stuff like the PS3 or whatever else plus optical digital and analogue audio inputs.

http://www.richersounds.com/product/...20a/lg-nb2520a
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Old 15-12-2012, 22:30
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So the first one I can connect my iphone/ipad via bluetooth and just connect the sound from my Samsung TV so whatever I am doing on the TV the sound will come out ?

The second one has the HDMI connection and sub woofer (I assume better sound) but no bluetooth.

I have also seen this http://www.richersounds.com/product/...sr906/lg-sr906 but is it really worth it in a room so small ??
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Old 15-12-2012, 23:01
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I wouldn't use Bluetooth for audio. OK for a handsfree kit in the car for your mobile but not for audio. Mind you if you already mangle the quality by using mp3s or the like anyway you probably won't notice. (no I don't own an iPod or any mp3 type player ) You can still use a cable from the headphone out of the iPod to the analogue audio input of the soundbar.

The LG full system would be OK. You just stick the speakers on the wall (apart from the sub) so perfectly feasible. And don't think for one minute the supposed 900+ Watts power output in the specs will be way over the top. For one thing it will never produce anything even close to a third of that in reality. All the manufacturers seem to lie about the power output spec. They measure one channel only then multiply by the number of channels. But don't fit a power supply that can provide enough welly to drive all channels to full level

Oh and if you do go for the full system DO NOT run the speaker cables under the carpet. It just makes it a royal pain in the wotsit to replace them when (note, when not if) they get damaged. Run them round the skirting well away from anywhere they can be walked over.
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Old 16-12-2012, 13:06
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Thanks for the replies think I will go with the full system.
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Old 17-12-2012, 15:45
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Thanks for the replies think I will go with the full system.
Here's a surround sound system worth considering.

http://www.richersounds.com/product/...96/yama-yht196
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Old 17-12-2012, 17:36
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I picked one of these up earlier in the month and im very happy with the sound from it.

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/...stem/index.jsp
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Old 17-12-2012, 19:21
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I picked one of these up earlier in the month and im very happy with the sound from it.

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/...stem/index.jsp
How much?, bet it was expensive.
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