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I am completely new to the market of HiFi but I have bought myself a pair of used DSP8000.2 and now I am scratching my head on what I should buy to make a good setup that does what I want it to do.

What I want is to have something that I can connect the TV to through either optical cable or HDMI. Was first thinking about the 210 but then realised that it doesnt have any optical input, so then I looked into the 218 and heard that you need a NAS to make it run with the speakers.

I now feel that I have jumped into the deep side of the pool of things I know nothing about so I have come here for help

The system will only be the two speakers and the TV (gaming consoles and such plugged into the TV as well), all music listening will be through Tidal.

I feel that I have read a lot and talked to a lot of people about this but I feel like I am just getting dumber with all the info.

Any pointers appreciated!

Greetings!

This reminds me of my second setup where I drive an F80 but it could be a pair of DSP8000.2 as well.

LG C2 series OLED >optical out (configure for external stereo PCM optical out speaker setup)
218 - optical in, MHR out to DSP Speakers

Now this takes care of all TV-related audio. For Tidal many of us use Roon hence the ’NAS’ recommendation but in your case unless you have lots of offline music I would stick with a single

Roon Nucleus

That’s it. You don’t need a NAS unless you need massive offline storage for music.