GandalfTheAudiofool
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Hello everybody...
I'm planning to add an AVR and a vocal (for a start) to my setup so I need your help but first I've got another question...
Something very strange and unexpected (to me) happened: when I upgraded my 2.0 setup and started watching TV while directing sound to the 2.0 stereo setup, suddenly the dialogues were way clearer than they used to. By "way clearer" I mean: wife, kid and I all noticed it. It's simply way easier to understand what people are saying the movies/series than it used to.
Now I thought I'd have to move to a real AVR and "home cinema" speakers setup to get any benefit but I already got great improvement by "just" buying a new stereo amp / new speakers.
What I had before weren't bad speakers: Dali Zensor 7 hooked to a Cambridge Audio Azur 640A stereo amp and Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100 DAC. I used that for years.
Now I upgraded a few months ago to these beauties:
DALI Epicon 6 speakers (original owner had them at 30% off and used them one year then sold them 1 K EUR less than what he paid them, so I got a sweet sweet deal) and a stereo Yamaha R-N1000A amp (probably a bit underpriced compared to the speakers but it's a darn fine amp).
That amp and the LG TV both have ARC (not sure e-ARC or not: haven't checked yet) but I don't even configure that yet: I'm simply using a good old TOSLink cable as if the eighties called and wanted their optical fiber connector back. And it Just Works! [TM]
And that's my big surprise which I really didn't expect: voices in movies and series (be it streamed from my own Plex server or from Netflix) sound much better than on either my old stereo setup (Dali Zensor 7) or on the LG TV's internal speaker. It's not me: everyone at home noticed voices are cleaner than in our previous setup.
Why? Why is it that for the first time ever I'm experiencing great actor voices although it's only a stereo setup? I didn't expect that. I'm really curious as to what the explanation to that is. Is it because they're good speakers? Is it because of the amp? Both?
Anyway... Where do I go from here to reuse my Epicon 6 stereo speakers as left/right in a 3.0 setup? (which I may, later on, expand to more speakers but I want to start with a 3.0 setup)
I don't know anything about it: what'd need to be wired to where? I don't want to buy pricey stuff: I've already got a good enough to me stereo amp and I definitely want to reuse these speakers in the 3.0 setup.
As I'm a die-hard DALI fan, I'm definitely buying some DALI vocal speaker (I don't know which model yet but not the Epicon vokal which is find fugly). No preference about the AVR but I need something which allows to be paired with the stereo Yamaha R-N1000A.
What should I be looking for here to add an AVR to do a 3.0 while yet keeping my 2.0 stereo for music? Is it doable (does the R-N1000A have the required input?) I'd say I could just keep using it in a 2.0 setup with that stereo amp but I take it it's going to be even better with an AVR and a real vocal speaker?
(btw I'm music first, home cinema a very distant second so I'm not as picky for the AVR/vocal as with the stereo speakers)
Any help / explanation of what needs to be done is much welcome as I'm a noob for AVR/home cinema.
I'm planning to add an AVR and a vocal (for a start) to my setup so I need your help but first I've got another question...
Something very strange and unexpected (to me) happened: when I upgraded my 2.0 setup and started watching TV while directing sound to the 2.0 stereo setup, suddenly the dialogues were way clearer than they used to. By "way clearer" I mean: wife, kid and I all noticed it. It's simply way easier to understand what people are saying the movies/series than it used to.
Now I thought I'd have to move to a real AVR and "home cinema" speakers setup to get any benefit but I already got great improvement by "just" buying a new stereo amp / new speakers.
What I had before weren't bad speakers: Dali Zensor 7 hooked to a Cambridge Audio Azur 640A stereo amp and Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100 DAC. I used that for years.
Now I upgraded a few months ago to these beauties:
DALI Epicon 6 speakers (original owner had them at 30% off and used them one year then sold them 1 K EUR less than what he paid them, so I got a sweet sweet deal) and a stereo Yamaha R-N1000A amp (probably a bit underpriced compared to the speakers but it's a darn fine amp).
That amp and the LG TV both have ARC (not sure e-ARC or not: haven't checked yet) but I don't even configure that yet: I'm simply using a good old TOSLink cable as if the eighties called and wanted their optical fiber connector back. And it Just Works! [TM]
And that's my big surprise which I really didn't expect: voices in movies and series (be it streamed from my own Plex server or from Netflix) sound much better than on either my old stereo setup (Dali Zensor 7) or on the LG TV's internal speaker. It's not me: everyone at home noticed voices are cleaner than in our previous setup.
Why? Why is it that for the first time ever I'm experiencing great actor voices although it's only a stereo setup? I didn't expect that. I'm really curious as to what the explanation to that is. Is it because they're good speakers? Is it because of the amp? Both?
Anyway... Where do I go from here to reuse my Epicon 6 stereo speakers as left/right in a 3.0 setup? (which I may, later on, expand to more speakers but I want to start with a 3.0 setup)
I don't know anything about it: what'd need to be wired to where? I don't want to buy pricey stuff: I've already got a good enough to me stereo amp and I definitely want to reuse these speakers in the 3.0 setup.
As I'm a die-hard DALI fan, I'm definitely buying some DALI vocal speaker (I don't know which model yet but not the Epicon vokal which is find fugly). No preference about the AVR but I need something which allows to be paired with the stereo Yamaha R-N1000A.
What should I be looking for here to add an AVR to do a 3.0 while yet keeping my 2.0 stereo for music? Is it doable (does the R-N1000A have the required input?) I'd say I could just keep using it in a 2.0 setup with that stereo amp but I take it it's going to be even better with an AVR and a real vocal speaker?
(btw I'm music first, home cinema a very distant second so I'm not as picky for the AVR/vocal as with the stereo speakers)
Any help / explanation of what needs to be done is much welcome as I'm a noob for AVR/home cinema.