Page 1 of What`s the best way to integrate Home cinema into Hi-Fi?

I am about to embark on to road to home cinema and want to know the best way to fit it into my current hi-fi set up. Due to space limitations my hi-fi and home cinema will have to share the same room.

I have Musical Fidelity pre/power amps driving floor standing speakers. I don`t want to have to get another set of front speakers for the home cinema (as there is not enough room for all those speakers) so my question is...Is there a way of using my existing MF amps and speakers and integrating them with my home cinema? I remeber a long time back that Mordant Short used to make a decoder which also had an amp for the centre and rear speaker only, allowing you to use the hi-fi amp to drive the front speakers. Are decoders like this still made - I`ve looked around and have not been able to find one.

Can anyone suggest an better way of doing this? I still love my Hi-Fi and it takes precedence to the home cinema.

The gizmo you`re looking for is the Yamaha DSPE800 : try http://www.empiredirect.co.uk who were the cheapest last time I looked.

This item was edited on Friday, 7th June 2002, 14:30

Thanks for that. Couldn`t find it on empiredirect but found it on a few other sites.