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I am not sure if this is the right category for this thread, but I thought this would be a place to start.
Reading the title, some of you may be thinking, why doesn't this guy get a Home Theater Receiver? Well, the reason is space. I have a very small "living room" in my apartment, and I am trying to keep things minimal and compact.
Currently, I have a 24" S2409W Dell widescreen LCD monitor connected to my PS3 via HDMI (in a cramped corner of my living room). The Audio is then piped from the Monitor via a mini-to-mini cable to a Fiio E5 amp and then to the AUX-In of Logitech mm50 (ipod speakers). The Fiio E5 amp provides a nice little boost and increases the soundstage/clarity, the problem is, it would be nice if it could get louder. My living room is something like 12x10, but the seating area around the "telly" is within 5-7 feet of the screen. I use the PS3 for watching digital content on it and Blu-Ray or regular DVD discs, and of course, gaming.
After reading numerous threads, I am considering the Travagans Red amp (for its Speakers connections) or the iBasso D10 (for its Optical Out). I consider them good upgrades, because of their compactness, and also they are great headphone amps (for my ipod and for gaming on PS3).
Does anybody have any experience in this kind of setup, or any general opinions. Would the Travagans Red be able to power, say, Paradigm Atom speakers? Writing this now, I realize the Travagans Red is $200 and the iBasso is $300, and an Onkyo TX-SR507 Receiver is $320 on Amazon. Why not make space for a big-old receiver then? For the iBasso I was considering pairing it with a Klipsch SXT (ipod speaker), for like $70 on Ebay.
Anybody been down this road before? I will be moving to a bigger living situation, within the next 6 months.
Reading the title, some of you may be thinking, why doesn't this guy get a Home Theater Receiver? Well, the reason is space. I have a very small "living room" in my apartment, and I am trying to keep things minimal and compact.
Currently, I have a 24" S2409W Dell widescreen LCD monitor connected to my PS3 via HDMI (in a cramped corner of my living room). The Audio is then piped from the Monitor via a mini-to-mini cable to a Fiio E5 amp and then to the AUX-In of Logitech mm50 (ipod speakers). The Fiio E5 amp provides a nice little boost and increases the soundstage/clarity, the problem is, it would be nice if it could get louder. My living room is something like 12x10, but the seating area around the "telly" is within 5-7 feet of the screen. I use the PS3 for watching digital content on it and Blu-Ray or regular DVD discs, and of course, gaming.
After reading numerous threads, I am considering the Travagans Red amp (for its Speakers connections) or the iBasso D10 (for its Optical Out). I consider them good upgrades, because of their compactness, and also they are great headphone amps (for my ipod and for gaming on PS3).
Does anybody have any experience in this kind of setup, or any general opinions. Would the Travagans Red be able to power, say, Paradigm Atom speakers? Writing this now, I realize the Travagans Red is $200 and the iBasso is $300, and an Onkyo TX-SR507 Receiver is $320 on Amazon. Why not make space for a big-old receiver then? For the iBasso I was considering pairing it with a Klipsch SXT (ipod speaker), for like $70 on Ebay.
Anybody been down this road before? I will be moving to a bigger living situation, within the next 6 months.