Just went to an AV shop to try out the yamaha rx-v665, with 5.1 speakers and output video to optoma hd65, the video seems ok and the audio are great.

Got a quote of RM2300 for Yamaha RX-V665 and RM2900 for Optoma HD65, what you guys think of the offer?

Anyways i asked for the price of HDMI cable, Audioquest HDMI cable 8m gonna cost RM600+ ... Should i use that cable? or get cheaper alternatives?

Hi..

Hearin in de av shop wil not neccesarily mean u can replicate it at home..
even thou u use back de same spkrs..

I tink u can get de yammy cheaper in Klang valley.. Optomas - why dont u ask Bro HTkaki?

Uhm cbls - dont u wan a brand name to go along wif ur 'branded' gear?

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HDMI cables transport digital signals. won't affect the quality much if those digital signals are travelling on unbranded wires.
IMO save the RM600+ and dump that into the AVR budget.

RM2300 + RM600 saved from the HDMI and wallah.. you got RM2900 budget. enough for a marantz SR6003

Haha..

I wanted TS to answer for himself whether uhm he nids de 'branded' hdmi as opposed to no name brand - sum say got diff .. woh..

On de Marantzs.. U might wanna knw abt handshake prblms wif hdmi n/or odo prblms wif bitstreamin ..

Cheers
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But you won't get cheap 8m HDMI cable. So far I found 10m HDMI RM126, can get local. So, can save RM474

Haha i dont mind using non-branded hdmi cables as long as they work, but i wont add the RM600 savings into my AVR budget lol... sry im cheapskates

Bro how is the performance of the 10m hdmi cable? and mind telling me where to get it if they are good?

I read sumwhere sum hypermart stocks hdmi cbls now..

I don't know the performance, but I think it should be ok. HDMI cable is either work or not work. If not work, you'll not get picture at all or sparkle picture (like scratched vcd), that's the beauty of HDMI. You can get it from here. If you want 3m only, just get it at Tesco, RM10 only.

Yup..

Agreed.. n since I read tat de 10m which cost less than a RM100, its stil not so prohibitive to get de cheap hypermart one to try out n if it really dont work, get a branded one which presumably shld be all-compliant [it shld be, for its askin price]
Compared to when I was looking for a cheap one which happened to be from Monoprice - plus shippin n everytin stil came to ard RM300 - ended up wif an opend box Better Cables for nearly RM700[equivalent]..

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guys whats the advantage of having pre-outs?

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Added on April 10, 2010, 10:25 pmI'm in a similar situation with kit615 but my stuff are way........cheaper. 2 century(designed by phillips sound labs) standing speakers,1 audio phonar centre speaker,2 audio phonar surround speakers and a harmon/kardon amp which only has prologic 1....sigh.. I guess they are like 16 yrs old. What i'm thinking of is getting a new amp/receiver and a subwoofer.I'm looking at a budget of rm2-3k (is is possible?) Yesterday i went to A&L in amcorp mall and the sales guy recommended me a yamaha rx-v465 receiver for RM1600 and a subwoofer (forgot the name) for RM1200. What do all u sifu's here think...?

This post has been edited by ediaikau: Apr 10 2010, 10:25 PM