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I have an old Sony amp which a turntable, CD player, and soon a MD player and tape  player will be connected to.
I want to get an AV amp to hang a load of HDMI devices off (i.e. satellite box, BR/DVD player, Xbox 360).
Is there some way I can connect the old amp to the new amp, or do I need to junk the old amp and spend about £300 on a new amp that lets me connect EVERYTHING to it?
The only outputs as far as I can see on the existing amp are to the speakers?
[Edited on 30-06-2011 by Sam]
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Dom
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Why can't you connect the sources to your AV amp? Most AV amps have multiple inputs  If your Sony has Tape Return/Out then you can feed that into your AV amp although confused why you would do this.
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OK, my current amp is set up as follows:
- Tape1/DAT (nothing connected, sometimes plug iPod into this)
- Tape2 monitor (nothing connected)
- CD (CD player connected)
- Video (nothing connected)
- Phono (turntable connected)
The Sky box (when I get it), the 360 and the DVD player (when I get it) all have HDMI.
Would the AV amp have an input that I could say connect a RCA cable between that and say the video RCA connectors on the hi fi amp for example?
Not sure if this makes sense, I think I'm getting myself confused here? 
[Edited on 30-06-2011 by Sam]
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Dom
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Still confused why you want to connect your sources to your Sony Amp when you can connect them straight to your AV amp; as said, most AV amps have inputs for other sources (Denon - http://hdtelevizija.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/denon_avr1908_back.jpg).
Edit - In short, get AV amp get RID of your Sony, plug sources into AV amp.
[Edited on 30-06-2011 by Dom]
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Sam
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Could I plug everything into this:
Sony STRDH510
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Dom
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Pretty limited AV amp that, but it's got a CD input and you could probably use the TV input for something else if it isn't assigned to a video input.
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John
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Do you still use cassettes and lp's? Can't see why youd want to plug any of it in at all otherwise.
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Sam
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Turntable is used sometimes, my other half has loads of tapes but we don't have a tape player ATM as the old one broke so we'd be replacing that.
I do also want to add a MD separate too.
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Gary
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NO sub out on that amp. Fail.
How about a phono switcher?
Put all your phono stuff to the switcher then to your new amp (surely itll have 1 phono IN)
Job done
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John
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Can you leave the Sony as it is, surround setups are in general not as good for music as a hifi.
I know there are plenty of exceptions to this before anybody corrects me, for this it probably stands true.
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Gary
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Most surround amps will be able to run in 2.1 as well as 5.1 anyways so win win either way
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Sam
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Gary, there is a sub-out on that amp (to the right of "VIDEO")...
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Sam
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So if I used the HDMI ports for the BR/DVD player, Xbox 360 and Sky+ HD box, can I use the RCAs for the hi-fi bits at the same time (even though the same labelled HDMI ports are in use)?
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
So if I used the HDMI ports for the BR/DVD player, Xbox 360 and Sky+ HD box, can I use the RCAs for the hi-fi bits at the same time (even though the same labelled HDMI ports are in use)?
Dont get you
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Unles you meean can you use a HDMI input and a phono at the same time.
Cant see it tbh??
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There are 3x HDMI.
Now for example the ones labelled DVD in and Sat in, there are corresponding audio-in RCA ports with the same names.
Can I use both types of ports at the same time or is it only one or the other that can be used?
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Sam
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When I say "RCA" I'm talking about the phono ports...
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quote:
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There are 3x HDMI.
Now for example the ones labelled DVD in and Sat in, there are corresponding audio-in RCA ports with the same names.
Can I use both types of ports at the same time or is it only one or the other that can be used?
I'd say one or the other. Otherwise you'd have 2 lots of sound playing?
The names mean nothing apart from corrosponding to the selector menu on the front really
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Got a link for it Sam?
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Sam
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It's a few posts up with a photo:
http://bit.ly/ifH0aN
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I've just thought... Can I use a phono lead going from the video-out of my existing amp, to the video-in of the new amp?
And just choose whatever I want to listen to on the existing amp and leave the new one set to 'video'? Would that work?
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got it anyways.
Why would you use 2 inputs at once?
Xbox video over HDMI and say CD player over phono so you can listen to your music whist on xbox???
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No nothing like that...
Basically I just want to be able to listen to the audio from all AV devices I've got/am getting through the one set of 5.1 speakers.
So that is:
- turntable
- CD player
- MD player
- tape player
- BR/DVD player
- Xbox 360
Edit - not at the same time BTW
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I think I will probably have to end up spending about £300 on this and selling my existing amp:
Sony STRDH820
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Just yeah.
Using CD audio in, sat audio in, TV audio in and the video audio in. Plus your DVD and xbox over HDMI
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