QUOTE(voncrane @ Oct 20 2014, 12:18 AM)
There are 5 speakers and 1 sub-woofer in total (Front-L, Front-R, Surround-L, Surround-R, Center, and the Sub-woofer). I'm unsure as to if the sub-woofer is passive or active, maybe the attached images will help. Thanks for the hint about garage sales section and mudah. I did check mudah but only found 2 second-hand receivers from like 10 years ago with no hdmi support for around RM800
, clearly not interested in them, hence seeking newer or better models.
AV receivers with HDMI inputs are relatively new thus harder to find as second hand items here. From those images, the subwoofer is passive type unfortunately. That means besides the AV receiver (with HDMI inputs), you will need an integrated (high powered) amplifier to drive that subwoofer or make a DIY internal power amplifier for the subwoofer (e.g. using car audio amplifiers)...
QUOTE(voncrane @ Oct 20 2014, 12:30 AM)
Hmmm... I now see what u both mean & will take that into consideration, does seem a bit messy though, splitting one HDMI output into 3 separate RCA Inputs. Sound degradation?
Most home theater speakers are usually of inadequate sound quality (with the exception of a few), thus sound degradation is less considered at all. There are HDMI audio extractors and converters around. Most of them converts to analogue stereo only, and if you want to use surround sound then have to use a digital surround decoder with SPDIF input (as most of them have SPDIF outputs). There are also HDMI audio extractors that do convert to surround sound outputs though, but not easy to find or buy. For example:
Gefen, LLC - HDMI to HDMI Plus Audio Converter. However that does not include the amplifiers required to drive the speakers...
This post has been edited by lex: Oct 20 2014, 12:59 AM