vyacheslav
Senior Member
Greetings,
I am planning on using professional studio monitors for my speakers. Here is my thought for the setup-please crtique me:
TV: Has a Blu-Ray Player and an Amazon Fire TV Box (not the stick) hooked up to it. Has RCA Audio Outs and a Digital Audio Out. Receives inputs from the Blu Ray Player and the Amazon Fire Box via HDMI cables.
Blu Ray Player: Has Digital Coax Audio Out and RCA Audio Outs. Hooked up to the TV with an HDMI cable.
Amazon Fire Box: Only has HDMI Out (which goes to the TV).
Here is my plan:
Have a small, non-powered (unamplified) mixer near the TV. Run the RCA Audio outs from the TV into mixer Input 1 that has L & R inputs (using Female RCA to Male 1/4" TS adapters).
Run the RCA Audio outs from the Blu-Ray player into mixer Input 2 that has L & R inputs (using Female RCA to Male 1/4" TS adapters).
Now I know if I run the RCA Outs from the TV into the mixer, that will include all the audio for everything that is hooked to the TV (Amazon Fire Box and Blu Ray). The reason I want to have the Blu Ray as a seperate input into the mixer is that I like to listen to CD's (yes I am old school)! With the Blu Ray audio being a seperate input into the mixer, that way I can play the audio CD via the Blu Ray player and not have to have the TV on the whole time to get an audio signal from the speakers. When not using the Blu Ray player, I would mute Input 2 of the mixer (Blu-Ray Audio), and when using the Blu-Ray, I would mute Input 1 (TV Audio) so I wouldn't get a lot of weird feeback or distortion or double volume.
I would also use a third input in the mixer and that would be for my phone. Like most of us, I have quite a bit of music on my phone that I do not have on CD or other media. This would simply be a 1/8" Female stereo cable from the phone going to a 1/4" Male TRS adapter into mixer Input 3. Again, when using Input 3 (phone), I would mute the other channels and vice-versa.
Does this sound like a reasonable plan?
Also, I plan on getting good quality studio monitors. Will they "stand on their own", or do I need to get an additional subwoofer to really bring out the bass and lifelike sound? I guess it depends on the size of the woofer in the monitor?
The TV will be wall mounted above a fireplace and the speakers (2) will be on the far left and far right of the mantle, below the TV and just a little wider than the TV itself. Would I gain anything by running 2 additional speakers and placing them directly behind the couch at head level at the far left and far right of the couch? The couch faces the TV, so the speakers would be facing each other. The couch is roughly 10-12 feet away from where the TV/Fireplace are located.
Thanks for your help on this!
V
I am planning on using professional studio monitors for my speakers. Here is my thought for the setup-please crtique me:
TV: Has a Blu-Ray Player and an Amazon Fire TV Box (not the stick) hooked up to it. Has RCA Audio Outs and a Digital Audio Out. Receives inputs from the Blu Ray Player and the Amazon Fire Box via HDMI cables.
Blu Ray Player: Has Digital Coax Audio Out and RCA Audio Outs. Hooked up to the TV with an HDMI cable.
Amazon Fire Box: Only has HDMI Out (which goes to the TV).
Here is my plan:
Have a small, non-powered (unamplified) mixer near the TV. Run the RCA Audio outs from the TV into mixer Input 1 that has L & R inputs (using Female RCA to Male 1/4" TS adapters).
Run the RCA Audio outs from the Blu-Ray player into mixer Input 2 that has L & R inputs (using Female RCA to Male 1/4" TS adapters).
Now I know if I run the RCA Outs from the TV into the mixer, that will include all the audio for everything that is hooked to the TV (Amazon Fire Box and Blu Ray). The reason I want to have the Blu Ray as a seperate input into the mixer is that I like to listen to CD's (yes I am old school)! With the Blu Ray audio being a seperate input into the mixer, that way I can play the audio CD via the Blu Ray player and not have to have the TV on the whole time to get an audio signal from the speakers. When not using the Blu Ray player, I would mute Input 2 of the mixer (Blu-Ray Audio), and when using the Blu-Ray, I would mute Input 1 (TV Audio) so I wouldn't get a lot of weird feeback or distortion or double volume.
I would also use a third input in the mixer and that would be for my phone. Like most of us, I have quite a bit of music on my phone that I do not have on CD or other media. This would simply be a 1/8" Female stereo cable from the phone going to a 1/4" Male TRS adapter into mixer Input 3. Again, when using Input 3 (phone), I would mute the other channels and vice-versa.
Does this sound like a reasonable plan?
Also, I plan on getting good quality studio monitors. Will they "stand on their own", or do I need to get an additional subwoofer to really bring out the bass and lifelike sound? I guess it depends on the size of the woofer in the monitor?
The TV will be wall mounted above a fireplace and the speakers (2) will be on the far left and far right of the mantle, below the TV and just a little wider than the TV itself. Would I gain anything by running 2 additional speakers and placing them directly behind the couch at head level at the far left and far right of the couch? The couch faces the TV, so the speakers would be facing each other. The couch is roughly 10-12 feet away from where the TV/Fireplace are located.
Thanks for your help on this!
V
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