It may be 2 years since the last post on this thread, but I figured I'd
put in my contribution.
I bought an SB3/SB Classic to plug in to my AV5103. Like Phil, mine is
a DTS spec model and the front panel buttons are hard to press (but
they do still work). The remote is old-fashioned but still very strong.
It can be programmed to take over all of the functions of the SB remote,
but unlike newer remotes the Linn AV remote does not have any LCD screen
to 'soft label' any of the buttons. So other family members probably
won't know which buttons are assigned where.
Setting up the AV5103 is a pain. Inputs associated with physical
connectors can be named as you want, then associated with a 'source
button' on the remote. However if you buy a 2nd hand machine, you
cannot easily tell which input name is associated with which physical
connector on the back. Anyway, my AV5103 is set up to take a feed from
the Squeezebox via a fairly low quality cable into electrical digital
input number 1. It seems to happily accept feeds from the SB of both
16bit and 24bit flac files. I have named input1 squeez and on the
remote it is associated with the 'DAT' button.
I'll eventually plug my DVD player and digitalTV box into the AV5103 as
well using digital audio and s-video. There is no component video or
HDMI since the AV5103 is too old to support it (and my TV is too old to
care).
Overall I really like my AV5103 - I bought it so cheaply that any
shortcoming on the video side are irrelevant to me. I don't really know
yet if the DAC in the AV5103 is better than the SB3. My Linn dealer told
me that as a stereo preamp it is better than the majik(LK) wakonda,
kolektor and kairn, but the newer ones are better. Mind you the majik
and majik-I do not have digital audio inputs or video switching so you
really have to spend a lot of money on Linn to get an AV preamp/
processor of any sort. I'd be interested to put higher bit rates than
44.1kHz to see if they work for 16bit and 24bit PCM but I believe that
the SB3 won't do any more than 48kHz 24bit.
Cheers everyone
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ant.perry
Australia
SB3 + Linn AV5103 processor
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