I am familiar with the sound of the Sasha as my friend has a pair; they are very revealing speakers. My advice on the whole thing would be, don't do it. I have a separate system for HT but it is also 2 channel and I find it works just fine. A 5.1 will give sound effects you won't get with 2 channel but the quality of the sound itself is very seldom as good. The more complications you put into a system the harder it is to maintain the same level of performance. HT is just a different animal than music listening and you have to give one priority over the other. I would chose to do it by running 2 channel and giving up the surround sound aspects of 5.1. I find most theaters have bad sound and actually miss the old Altecs of my young days. Obviously I am an old fogey so feel free to disregard this.
2 Ch/HT integration-need help from experts
Hello,
I am planning to build 5.1 Home theater on top of existing 2 ch stereo.
My problem is that I don't have a preamp, so HT bypass (in a preamp) is currently not my option.
My 2 channel system consists of music server equipped with lynx aes16 audio card (as a transport), DCS Scarlatti stack (upsampler, DAC and clock) which feeds Krell Evo 400's. Most downstream is Wilson Sasha. Oppo bdp-93 is hooked up to the upsampler for movie.
I really prefer i) not to have a preamp (I like the dynamics of Scalartti without it) and ii) to keep high resolution audio (True HD and DTS Master) from the blu-ray player. Of course, I don't really want to rewire whenever watching movie:)
I can live with two volume controls (from Scarlatti DAC and from any processor I am going to buy).
Would you have any recommendations? It doesn't need to be fancy, simple solutions such as HDMI/Toslink splitter (so that it can feed 2 channel to Scalatti DAC and others to the processor) would be greatly appreciated as long as it does not hurt 2 channel performance. I doubt about high resolution audio which passes toslink even 2 channel though.
It will also be appreciated if you could point out something I am missing such as OPPO/DCS-software setup to solve my problem.
Thank you!
*English is not my first language; so please understand if my description above has errors or is inefficient.
I am planning to build 5.1 Home theater on top of existing 2 ch stereo.
My problem is that I don't have a preamp, so HT bypass (in a preamp) is currently not my option.
My 2 channel system consists of music server equipped with lynx aes16 audio card (as a transport), DCS Scarlatti stack (upsampler, DAC and clock) which feeds Krell Evo 400's. Most downstream is Wilson Sasha. Oppo bdp-93 is hooked up to the upsampler for movie.
I really prefer i) not to have a preamp (I like the dynamics of Scalartti without it) and ii) to keep high resolution audio (True HD and DTS Master) from the blu-ray player. Of course, I don't really want to rewire whenever watching movie:)
I can live with two volume controls (from Scarlatti DAC and from any processor I am going to buy).
Would you have any recommendations? It doesn't need to be fancy, simple solutions such as HDMI/Toslink splitter (so that it can feed 2 channel to Scalatti DAC and others to the processor) would be greatly appreciated as long as it does not hurt 2 channel performance. I doubt about high resolution audio which passes toslink even 2 channel though.
It will also be appreciated if you could point out something I am missing such as OPPO/DCS-software setup to solve my problem.
Thank you!
*English is not my first language; so please understand if my description above has errors or is inefficient.