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Posted by David Aiken (A) on September 21, 2009 at 23:54:17

In Reply to: RE: Attendant equipment posted by rhizomatic on September 21, 2009 at 21:04:23

The cheapest option, infinitely expandable at a later date, is simply to use the speakers in the TV if it has 2 speakers. That will give you stereo. Just make sure that the BD player is set up to send a stereo signal to the TV by picking the right options in the player's setup menu.

If you want to do it any other way you're going to have to buy either a stereo integrated amplifier or a receiver plus speakers. Most receivers are surround sound so you're buying a lot of channels that you don't need though NAD did make a reasonable 2 channel AV receiver at one stage and may still do so.

The thing is that if you have stereo speakers in the TV you don't need anything else in order to get stereo sound. You can spend money to improve the quality of that sound but if you've already stretched your budget to the breaking point I'd live with what you've got until you can afford to get something a bit better than bottom of the line.



David Aiken