I'm trying to wrap my head around how to get the best possible sound quality from TV. The gear I have (will have in some cases) is:
New stuff:
BT Vision+ V-box
Panasonic blueray player
Panasonic TX-P46GT30B television
Old stuff:
Linn Sondek LP/Ittok/Goldring G1040
Linn Pretek pre-amplifier
Linn LK280 amplifier
Linn Karik II CD player
EPOS ES14 loudspeakers
I am buying the TV some time this week, along with a blueray player. I've had the Linn/EPOS hifi gear since the early 1990's. I want to connect the V-box, blueray player and television to the Linn Pretek pre-amp to get the best possible sound quality from transmitted TV, from "On demand" stuff from the V-box and from playing blueray & DVD disks.
Obviously (is it?), I'll be feeding the TV with HDMI cables from the V-box and blueray player. I assume that running long (maybe 8 metres) RCA phono leads for audio from the sources to the Pretek isn't a great idea. I *could* run optical/toslink cables from the blueray player, from the v-box and from the TV to a DAC and then feed an analogue signal into the Linn Pretek but to do that, I'd need at least one optical switch as the DAC (which I have yet to buy) will not have three optical inputs - doesn't strike me as a great idea either. Alternatively, I could just run an optical/toslink cable from the Panasonic TV to the DAC - but I worry about whether the digital audio optical output from the TV will be identical to that which it receives via the HDMIs from the blueray and v-box. As a rule, with audio stuff the most direct route with fewest connections and bits of gear in the way seems to work best. Putting the TV in along the route from blueray/vbox to the DAC when it doesn't need to be doesn't feel like a great idea either.
So .... I can think of several ways to connect the sources to a DAC .... but none of them seem ideal. Has anyone any thoughts about the best way to do this?
Cheers
Andrew
New stuff:
BT Vision+ V-box
Panasonic blueray player
Panasonic TX-P46GT30B television
Old stuff:
Linn Sondek LP/Ittok/Goldring G1040
Linn Pretek pre-amplifier
Linn LK280 amplifier
Linn Karik II CD player
EPOS ES14 loudspeakers
I am buying the TV some time this week, along with a blueray player. I've had the Linn/EPOS hifi gear since the early 1990's. I want to connect the V-box, blueray player and television to the Linn Pretek pre-amp to get the best possible sound quality from transmitted TV, from "On demand" stuff from the V-box and from playing blueray & DVD disks.
Obviously (is it?), I'll be feeding the TV with HDMI cables from the V-box and blueray player. I assume that running long (maybe 8 metres) RCA phono leads for audio from the sources to the Pretek isn't a great idea. I *could* run optical/toslink cables from the blueray player, from the v-box and from the TV to a DAC and then feed an analogue signal into the Linn Pretek but to do that, I'd need at least one optical switch as the DAC (which I have yet to buy) will not have three optical inputs - doesn't strike me as a great idea either. Alternatively, I could just run an optical/toslink cable from the Panasonic TV to the DAC - but I worry about whether the digital audio optical output from the TV will be identical to that which it receives via the HDMIs from the blueray and v-box. As a rule, with audio stuff the most direct route with fewest connections and bits of gear in the way seems to work best. Putting the TV in along the route from blueray/vbox to the DAC when it doesn't need to be doesn't feel like a great idea either.
So .... I can think of several ways to connect the sources to a DAC .... but none of them seem ideal. Has anyone any thoughts about the best way to do this?
Cheers
Andrew
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