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Amp Help Please
Right, now i thought I was quite good at working these things out but this has stumped me.
Trying to connect a Yamaha amp to my Hitatchi 32PD5200. Now the hitachi came with a seprate media box with 4 scart inputs, a monitor out and audio out ports. SKY, xBOX ,DVD player and Wii are all plugged into the media box, so surely i should be able to connect the amp straight up to the media centre with one of those yellow, red and white AV cables shouldnt i? |
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SKY, xBOX ,DVD player and Wii are all plugged into the media box, so surely i should be able to connect the amp straight up to the media centre with one of those yellow, red and white AV cables shouldnt i?
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The Sky & Dvd are plugged into the scart plugs in the media centre thats part of the TV
Im now trying to plug the Amplifier into the whole setup somehow. I've got the speakers all wired into the Amp but i dont know how to attach the amp to everything else |
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You know that an amp is really only to give you better audio than the speakers of your TV don't you? So, no need to connect any video cables from anything into your amp.
Presumably you could just use the red and white audio cables from your media box thing to connect to an audio input on your amp, but you are still not getting the best out of your amp, as this will be in stereo at best. No Dolby Digital, no DTS. If you have Sky+ and your amp supports it, use an optical cable to connect your Sky+ box directly to your amp. Use either optical or coaxial to connect your DVD player to your amp, again if it supports it. Note, these are direct connections from audio out on DVD and Sky to separate audio ins on amp. Nothing to do with media box or TV at all. |
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I do know! But was probably worth checking.
Not sure why there are yellow vid ports on the amp, but they are there |
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I do know! But was probably worth checking.
Not sure why there are yellow vid ports on the amp, but they are there Good points - saves selecting source on both TV and amp. Allows multiple pieces of kit to be connected to TV if TV does not have enough inputs (scart, HDMI, s-video etc etc etc). Bad points - video is running through extra pieces of kit which may cause interference, rather than connecting direct to TV. Signal is only as good as the worst piece of kit in the chain - for example, if you connect your Sky box to your amp via RGB scart, but then the amp only has composite output, you are turning a good video signal into a poor video signal before forwarding it to the TV. |
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