Hi guys,
Currently I’m running a 15 year old Sony TV with two Behringer Truth 2031’s over RCA. I’ve added a Denon DCD-810 to that mix with a simple RCA switch to either listen to CD’s over the speakers or my TV. The setup is somewhat clunky, I have to power on each speaker manually and walk over to the RCA switch to choose between TV or CD’s. Since I’ve already had the speakers and the TV this was a very cheap way to go and I don’t mind the extra steps. I am bound by CD players with variable outputs because of this, hence the 35 year old CD player which has it’s disadvantages.
Now being realistic my TV is getting old, it’s only 40 inches and I want it replaced in the coming years. Looking at modern TV’s they don’t seem to have RCA out for audio, just optical and HDMI as options. My plan was to get a nice second hand receiver and a nice pair of second-hand stereo speakers.
Doing a bit of reading HDMI for audio seems to be the superior option. My big question is, in what way is an older receiver future proof for all the different technologies? I would probably need a receiver that is 4k capable and whatever protocols I might need. Will optical out really give me a big disadvantage over HDMI? And if I would use HDMI on the receiver what technologies would it have to support?
Sorry for the long story!
Hi! Thanks for your reply.
Due to my livingroom set-up I will be sticking to stereo yes. Would there be any safer options with that conversion when choosing optical or HDMI or is it really up to the receiver?
I will check them out, haven’t come across them on the second-hand market here in Europe but I will check out their site.
CD/Music playback will be through RCA on the receiver so that should not give problems I hope. At least I’m not bound to variable output CD-players anymore so I can finally move into the 90’s CD-player wise ;) Movies are usually Blurays through the 'ole PS4 so we’ll so how that goes.