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I have 94" projection screen living room/game room/ home theater.
I have an Onkyo 600 HTIB which includes a 5.1 onkyo speaker set and an Onkyo SR304B receiver.
I have been really happy with it, but I am wondering what is the best route to upgrade my system.
I have it hooked up to:
Comcast HD box via coaxial digital and component cables
HD-A3 via optical and hdmi going to the projector (rarely used anymore)
HD HTPC (BD and HD DVD) connected via 6 channel analog with the software decoding DD+, DTS, TrueHD, and DTS-MA. I did a side by side test and I found the analog sounded better than the optical out on the HTPC.
So upgrading to a 605 will not get me the use of more codecs as my HTPC is already decoding it. And from what I have read analog is usually easier after you consider handshake problems and an occasion lag at the beginning in sound processing from an HTPC.
So here is my question. Will a 575/604 or 605 convert the audio to the speakers better than my 304 or am I better off just getting better speaker?
Also, I want to stay with 5.1 for now. I don't have the landscape to setup 7 and most of the HDM I have watched is only 6 channel anyway.
I have an Onkyo 600 HTIB which includes a 5.1 onkyo speaker set and an Onkyo SR304B receiver.
I have been really happy with it, but I am wondering what is the best route to upgrade my system.
I have it hooked up to:
Comcast HD box via coaxial digital and component cables
HD-A3 via optical and hdmi going to the projector (rarely used anymore)
HD HTPC (BD and HD DVD) connected via 6 channel analog with the software decoding DD+, DTS, TrueHD, and DTS-MA. I did a side by side test and I found the analog sounded better than the optical out on the HTPC.
So upgrading to a 605 will not get me the use of more codecs as my HTPC is already decoding it. And from what I have read analog is usually easier after you consider handshake problems and an occasion lag at the beginning in sound processing from an HTPC.
So here is my question. Will a 575/604 or 605 convert the audio to the speakers better than my 304 or am I better off just getting better speaker?
Also, I want to stay with 5.1 for now. I don't have the landscape to setup 7 and most of the HDM I have watched is only 6 channel anyway.