I've been completely focused on home theater receivers and something like a digital mixer never crossed my mind. It is intriguing but...

The biggest issue is these mixers do not have any HDMI inputs or optical inputs for audio which I need for the TV side of this although the cable box does have RCA analog outs. Then on the studio side, they do not receive wifi audio input like the HT receivers do.

The only wireless part of using a digital mixer is controlling it which I admit is very cool but that would require me having everything in the living room because the mixer has to be hard wired to a power amp which would have to be sitting by the TV. If I kept the mixer and power amp in the bedroom then I'm running speaker cables out to the living room and the TV cable box audio back to the mixer. That's a lot of cables running through the wall.

But as I'm writing this I really like the idea of controlling the mixer with a tablet. The TV really is secondary. Damn Charlie why did you have to bring this up? I do have room under the TV for one of these mixers and I do have a brand new Crown Class D PA power amp I've never used (another story). But, but....Arrggh

Bob


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