No, I think all med wants it to do is play music effing loud enuf to occasionally annoy the neighbors. I was the one who raised the point aboot a DTS/THX decoder, and then the whole gang sortof jumped on the bandwagon.
sorry, med.
mnem
Nailed it. No 5.1. No 7.1. Just 2 channel LOUD.
In that case then, why bother with the right-hand side of the drawing? If the Sansui is not loud enough, grab an amp/receiver that has the power you need, upgrade the speakers if they can't handle the power, job done. Most amps will accept 2 CD inputs; CD1, CD2, Tuner, AV or AUX, Tape1, Tape2 and even today Phono, give you 2 sets of speakers A/B switched between A or B and A+B so if you wanted the other set of speakers in another room for example, thats easy to do. That should give you everything that you require with less space and fewer complications and less chance of a hum loop being introduced.
Or is there something else that I'm missing here?
I'm more and more moving towards building with separates. I've got a 12x8 matrix switcher and am driving my four room stereos from it, with front panel control. There is a web interface, telnet control and a serial port. I've got an Arduino sketch that'll drive the serial port and the A/V amp and the TV (I hope) using SoftwareSerial so I can have 1-button control of the chain TV (correct HDMI in) -> matrix switcher -> A/V amp -> speakers.
The thing I'm really into using it for is to adapt a rotary dial to be able to select inputs for the dining area, where the user is a bit removed from other control means and needs a quick way to select the right matrix input, with an extension for selecting the right FM tuner preset from the A/V receiver. (dial 01 ... 12 for input selection, dial 21 ... 28 for tuner presets (also selecting 02 for the physical input from the A/V), dial 31 ... 38 to select another matrix output, then dial 01 ... 12 for input towards that output.)
My inspiration is a very early danish computer which had a rotary dial to input numeric values in addition to the usual (for the period) toggle switches.
I've got
eBay auction: # 154156585519 on my watch list; I've got the audio companion to that (same series, same control language, etc) already in operation, as mentioned above.
So, if one wants to do something just a bit more complicated than one place, one source, modest levels, there's a lot to be said for roaming the Bay for used equipment...