Equipment I Use

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Sony VPL-VW60 1080p SXRD Projector (with 92″ fixed screen)
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Yamaha RX-Z7 7.1 AV Receiver
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Yamaha YDS-11 iPod Dock

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Toshiba XE1 HD-DVD player

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Belkin PF40 Power Station

XBox 360

Apple Mac Mini – 1.66GHz/2GB RAM (late 2006 model)
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PlayStation 3
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Richter Wizard MKIII Floorstanding Speakers (Front)
Richter Legend Centre Speaker (Centre)
Richter Legend Rear Speakers (Surround Back)
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Krix Atmospherix In-Ceiling Speakers (Surround)
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REL T3 Subwoofer (2 of ‘em)
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STEREO SYSTEM – LIVING ROOM

Pioneer PDP-C509 50″ Kuro 1080p Plasma TV
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Cyrus Pre XPd Pre-Amplifier with onboard DAC
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Cyrus 8 Power Amplifier (x2) running in Mono
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Cyrus CD8SE CD Player
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XTZ 99.25 bookshelf Speakers
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CONTROL

Philips Pronto TSU7000 Universal Touch Screen Remote Control

Philips Pronto TSU9200 Universal Remote Control

5 Comments »

Ron H wrote @ October 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Hello Mark,

Can you give me some insight on my Yamaha Zone 2/3 capability? There’s no sound coming out of my zone speakers.
Are CD/DVD player connected to HDMI a digital output? What about the YDS Ipod we use, is that digital, too? I’ve read in AVS forum that some people are able to listen to it on their zone/s. What exactly do you mean by analog output only?

Thank you much for your time.

Ron from California

admin wrote @ October 27th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

Hi Ron,
In order to get audio playing through the Zone 2/3 areas, the original source components MUST be connected via analogue cables also. If a DVD player is merely connected to the AVR with HDMI, this will not pass the audio to the Zone outputs. The Yamaha iPod dock is essentially converting the audio to analogue, so will work fine (it does in my setup). I use the iPod to feed audio outside to my second zone when entertaining.
Analogue means using the red and white RCA cables.
Hope this helps!
Mark

Brendan wrote @ November 12th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Mark,

Great setup you have there, just wondering as i have a pair of ELAC FS207 and running that on the DENON AVR 3808 at the moment. Have you tested these speakers on other amps? I wanted to try listening to this set of speakers on the Yamaha pre & power amp that my wife’s uncle has bought 10 years ago… but haven’t had a chance to transport these speakers over as yet.

Mark wrote @ November 12th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

Hi Brendan,
It may well be worth the trip. I suspect that pre/power combo will blow the Denon away (no disrespect intended!). So many things point in the Yamaha’s favour; more real power, less distortion and impact on signal path due to the simplistic nature of pre/power. My recent Cyrus addition to the ELACs is rated at only 40 watts but my does it sound amazing!

seal wrote @ June 30th, 2010 at 11:48 am

hi mark,i was wandering if you could please send me the link for Z7 manager softwre and RS232 asmentioned by you on av forum .I have a Z7 with richter speakers.

Thanks