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Just looking for some advice here.
Basically I'm looking to get a nice 5.1 (possibly 7.1 if funds are sufficient) setup that I want to be able to use as multi-purpose. I.E. use for surround sound for movies, my PS3 and for parties/get-togethers via streaming music from my home server.
Effectively what I want is to be able to have separate inputs for the TV, PS3, and a connection from my home server running Ampache. I basically have three questions:
1) What would be a good head unit to handle the multiple inputs (TV, PS3, Server). By 'good' I'm referring to sufficient for non-audiophiles but can push decently high quality when needed? Don't need video support, just audio if that'll cut the cost while still providing a decent quality unit.
2)What would be the best way to stream music from ampache to the unit? Roughin' it I could always just run a TOSLINK from my board's optical out to the head unit, but I can't imagine that'd be even remotely close to a good idea.
3)Am I correct in assuming that the setup would be something akin to:
Code:
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Basically I'm looking to get a nice 5.1 (possibly 7.1 if funds are sufficient) setup that I want to be able to use as multi-purpose. I.E. use for surround sound for movies, my PS3 and for parties/get-togethers via streaming music from my home server.
Effectively what I want is to be able to have separate inputs for the TV, PS3, and a connection from my home server running Ampache. I basically have three questions:
1) What would be a good head unit to handle the multiple inputs (TV, PS3, Server). By 'good' I'm referring to sufficient for non-audiophiles but can push decently high quality when needed? Don't need video support, just audio if that'll cut the cost while still providing a decent quality unit.
2)What would be the best way to stream music from ampache to the unit? Roughin' it I could always just run a TOSLINK from my board's optical out to the head unit, but I can't imagine that'd be even remotely close to a good idea.
3)Am I correct in assuming that the setup would be something akin to:
Code:
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Server via ??? INput
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Speakers via ??? OUTput --- Head Unit --- TV via HDMI INput
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PS3 via optical or HDMI INput