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Is this possible?

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KingBing Entertainment C'mon Up! I have a song for you!!! [font=MS Sans Serif][/font]

Why not?

Sure its possible, but what are you trying to achieve? Describe your application and the layout. Outside the movie theater and my living room, I've found surround sound to be a waste of time in most commercial applications.

Mojo

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"It looks just like a Telefunken U47 !"

Problem being aplication is limited.

Home Stereo recievers are ment to power each of the speakers. So in order to use some type of traditional (large PA speakers). You need to either use 4 amplifers to achieve 7.1 or use powered speakers. The next problem is then finding a 7.1 channel decoder. Most are very expensive cause the only application is commercial movie theaters.

ok, i was in a hurry when i posted.


Maybe not "surround sound" so to speak but can I hook up a set of powered PAs to my hd flat panel tv?

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KingBing Entertainment C'mon Up! I have a song for you!!! [font=MS Sans Serif][/font]

Well you can do either. You can either use a PA with enough speakers and amps to cover the 6 channels of surround sound or you can run your home theater system in Stereo and send it to your PA (if you've only got two channels to work with).

Take a look at this thread: http://www.karaoke-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=19029 I've described in pretty good detail there what I'm planning to build in our new house which will be a system that is suitable to be used as PA or Surround Sound. The big key is getting a receiver/decoder that has the pre-amp outputs for each of the channels (rather than a built in amplifier like most receivers have).

Hope that helps.

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DJ Tony
Let It Rip Karaoke

There are lots of DVD players made that have 6 RCA outs for 2 mains, 1 center, 2 surround, and 1 sub.

Pair such a DVD player with 5 or 6 amps that have RCA inputs, like the Crown XLS series, and you can run 5.1 surround through a PA system.

As both a KJ and a home theater buff (I have a 180" screen poolside in my backyard), I can tell you that using PA speakers for home theater is pretty much overkill. I run my backyard theater in 3.1 virtual surround off three 60 watt high-fi Sony speakers that cost about $18 each, and it sounds really really good and USUALLY attracts the police.

For a GREAT resource for home theater, especially backyard home theater, check out this site (the link will take you to a guy with a 5.1 surround PA system):

http://backyardtheater.com/forums/index.php?topic=354.0

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C Mc
KJ, FL