Without bass management or speaker timing adjustments, this device is of limited usefulness in home theater applications. Very few AV receivers will make those adjustments for their multichannel analog inputs (because it would require redigitizing the signal in order to do so, an expensive proposition). And without those adjustments, you're feeding a full bandwidth signal to all of your speakers, a potentially damaging and almost certainly sound-degrading situation. So be careful before you buy this. (Not to mention: mini phone jacks? Meh.)
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Without bass management or speaker timing adjustments, this device is of limited usefulness in home theater applications. Very few AV receivers will make those adjustments for their multichannel analog inputs (because it would require redigitizing the signal in order to do so, an expensive proposition). And without those adjustments, you're feeding a full bandwidth signal to all of your speakers, a potentially damaging and almost certainly sound-degrading situation. So be careful before you buy this. (Not to mention: mini phone jacks? Meh.)