First time poster. I've been reading a lot on this site since I stumbled upon it a month or two ago. It's an eyeopening resource. Thank you.
Living in a small, city apartment I'm trying to plan a 2 channel music system integrating video sources and room correction. Flexibility to add a subwoofer or two in the future is a want, not a need. All tv, movies, and music are played through an AppleTV (girlfriend and I) and Fire TV stick (her 5yr old son). I will need to find a way to play my digitized music collection by NAS or maybe even Roon. Usability is a big one because my girlfriend and the little man need to be able to watch TV with ease.
Option 1: Something like a Denon X3700 ticks a lot of boxes and measures well for an AVR but it would put a large chunk of my budget in a single component. I'd have to cut my spending on speakers and end up paying for amplification, extra inputs, and features I don't need. Properly setup, each of the remotes could switch AVR input when powered on/wake from sleep and I would have no Dolby Vision or HDR issues. The option to simply add speakers for surround sound room permitting does sound nice.
Option 2: Put together a DAC/preamp + amp combo connected to my LG OLED by optical out. This would allow my girlfriend and her son to switch video sources easily. I may not save much money, but I would only be paying for what I need and potentially have a better performing system. I do not know where in the signal chain I would add room correction. Side note: I don't fully understand jitter and its sonic consequences, nor have I found information on TV optical output quality. Is this even something worth concerning myself with?
I'll be starting from scratch because my dated AVR and entry level Klipsch floorstanders will not be kept. Not buying speakers until I sort out the equipment needs, but I'm leaning towards ELAC DBR62 on the low end or push for used/open box Revel M105 if I can find them. I did consider a music only solution, but TV speakers are awful to listen to all the time. So much sound is missing it ruins the experience. Even dialogue is lost and makes subtitles almost mandatory. Sometimes I wish I didn't know this forum and it's measurements existed because ignorance would have kept Topping, nCore, Purifi, etc. out of sight, out of mind. Thanks a lot everyone.
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks for reading.
Living in a small, city apartment I'm trying to plan a 2 channel music system integrating video sources and room correction. Flexibility to add a subwoofer or two in the future is a want, not a need. All tv, movies, and music are played through an AppleTV (girlfriend and I) and Fire TV stick (her 5yr old son). I will need to find a way to play my digitized music collection by NAS or maybe even Roon. Usability is a big one because my girlfriend and the little man need to be able to watch TV with ease.
Option 1: Something like a Denon X3700 ticks a lot of boxes and measures well for an AVR but it would put a large chunk of my budget in a single component. I'd have to cut my spending on speakers and end up paying for amplification, extra inputs, and features I don't need. Properly setup, each of the remotes could switch AVR input when powered on/wake from sleep and I would have no Dolby Vision or HDR issues. The option to simply add speakers for surround sound room permitting does sound nice.
Option 2: Put together a DAC/preamp + amp combo connected to my LG OLED by optical out. This would allow my girlfriend and her son to switch video sources easily. I may not save much money, but I would only be paying for what I need and potentially have a better performing system. I do not know where in the signal chain I would add room correction. Side note: I don't fully understand jitter and its sonic consequences, nor have I found information on TV optical output quality. Is this even something worth concerning myself with?
I'll be starting from scratch because my dated AVR and entry level Klipsch floorstanders will not be kept. Not buying speakers until I sort out the equipment needs, but I'm leaning towards ELAC DBR62 on the low end or push for used/open box Revel M105 if I can find them. I did consider a music only solution, but TV speakers are awful to listen to all the time. So much sound is missing it ruins the experience. Even dialogue is lost and makes subtitles almost mandatory. Sometimes I wish I didn't know this forum and it's measurements existed because ignorance would have kept Topping, nCore, Purifi, etc. out of sight, out of mind. Thanks a lot everyone.
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks for reading.