connect blu-ray home theater player and av receiver 5.1 ss together

[coddy6]

Hi guys. Iv been trying to work out for the last couple of weeks if there is away to connect these two units together to create (for a better word) 10.2 ssound from other connetions to the av unit such as tv and my diga recorder. Cheers guys. Hope to read something that puts my mind to rest about whether it can be done or not thanks

 

[SKORPI0]

You didn't specify what kind of audio outputs are on the BD player and the inputs of the AV Receiver.

Several ways to connect them, if they are available.

1. HDMI
2. Digital Audio Optical (OUT) to the (IN) of the AV Receiver if available.
3. Analog Audio (OUT) and (IN) respectively.

Welcome to the forums.

 

[coddy6]

I have the av reciver via hdmi and digital optical in. On the av unit i also have bd/recorder optical and hdmi and spdif in and tv hdmi in. All units and tv are Panasonic and all connected via viera link. I can get the two sets of speakers to play simultaneously but was also wondering if you might be able to let me know if this can damage the speakers in any way having the two working together out of two units. Cheers

 

[Randy99CL]

You're not making any sense.

You have an AV receiver and an AV Unit? What is the AV unit?

If they are separate systems then yes you can play them at the same time and it won't hurt anything. And no, you can't make a 10.2 system out of that.

 

[s44]

I think he has two cheesy HTIBs and wants to chain them together somehow to form HTIB Voltron.

It doesn't really work that way... if you want better sound, sell them both and buy decent separates.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I think he has two cheesy HTIBs and wants to chain them together somehow to form HTIB Voltron.

The mental picture made me lol.

 

[LoveMachine]

Coddy6, to summarize, taking 2 systems and running them at the same time might make things louder, but the overall quality of the sound will definitely be worse. And you will certainly NOT be adding extra channels (i.e. 10.2) from 5.1 source material.

 

[coddy6]

Hahaha. Hi guys. Cheers for the replys. Like I said as I was just about finished typing that I thought to myself that, that must sound like the most stupidest question asked. Lol. I have always had rca connection and just finally bought (on the cheap. Reeeeall cheap) what I could afford for the time being to use as a home theater setup. Will definitely be upgrading one day but for now this will have to do fir the time being. And yeah both the av receiver with 5.1 and the blu ray htib are now bout 7 years old but still work perfectly. Only got them afew weeks ago and like I said, got them hellllll cheap. Lol. Sorry to hurt afew minds with that and yeah cheers again for the help.

 

[coddy6]

Oh and just another question about the speakers is there a difference in any form of output on the blu ray speaker and the av receivers speakers. (Once again im guessing that this is abit of a stupid question) they are all 3 ohm speakers so I was wondering if I can put any Panasonic 3 ohm speakers into any Panasonic units 3 ohm inputs. The manual wasn't to clear on this. It says that you should only use the speakers provided with these htib units but wasnt sure if I could mix and match the blu ray speakers with the av receivers speakers. Thanks again. : )

 

[Ketchup]

You would make it much easier if you give us model numbers of the equipment you are working with.

 

[razel]

No need to apologize, we can tell from your posts that you are experimenting/having fun with new toys and are more than willing to learn in the process unlike other posts where people ask questions they think they know the answer to then shoot gurus who disagree with them... but anyways.

You can use more than one speaker connected to only one amplifier channel. Since you have 10 to play with, Safest way is to connect 4 speakers to one channel. Connect 2 pairs of speakers in parallel to get 1.5 ohms. Then connect those parallels wires together in a series to get back 3 ohms. Now connect to left channel. Bam 4 speakers per channel. Do the same for the right channel. Now you have two left for surrounds. Turn the center channel off and have fun!

For each 4 speakers place them as close together as you can. 2 speakers producing the same sound will reinforce each other and will output an additional 3db. That's equivalent to doubling your amplifier wattage. I'm not sure of how much additional output 4 speakers have.

Realistically though, I would just choose the best 5 speakers and use both subs... more subs is often recommended in the HT world.

 

[coddy6]

Haha. Definitely more subs the merrier. Haha. Thanks heaps for the that. Il get to trying that out asap and il post on how it turns out. Cheers again.