As a B&W owner who recently jumped up the power output to my front three, I can tell you MO POWER MO BETTER. Way more better too! I now have 400 watts going to my front three and it made an increadible difference in performace. My 9nt's carry so much more bass now. Its been totally worthwhile. Sounds like I moved up the food chain to new speakers!
Having said that, I'd look at Bryston's 6B SST at 300 watts per channel - three channel amp. Pair that to their 9B SST ordered with 4 channels for the rears or their HT875 8 channel amp and brige that down to 250 watts x 4 for the rears. Another is Anthem Statment products for 300 watts all around (a 2&5 channel amps). Any combination that will give your fronts a whole lot of power will work. I like 3 channels of very high power as the center needs it for in H/T as much as the other front two. Those rears can suffice with a little less anyway, they don't have to do much work.
As pointed out, triggers or auto on in most of these amps eliminate any hassle.
Bryston processor are terrific but no video switching at all except standalone and thats a bit dated now. Anthem AVM-50 or Statment D-2 will offer a high degree of flexibility for any H/T system AND state-of-the-art video processing for everything hooked up to it with just one cable going to your display. Certainly worth a look.
Save money for a controller for all this gear, btw. One remote for everything! Universal Remote Control makes a MX900 that you can set up yourself without too much trouble, actually easy once you get used to it. Then, anyone will just have to push a few straight forward buttons and be in control.
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Having said that, I'd look at Bryston's 6B SST at 300 watts per channel - three channel amp. Pair that to their 9B SST ordered with 4 channels for the rears or their HT875 8 channel amp and brige that down to 250 watts x 4 for the rears. Another is Anthem Statment products for 300 watts all around (a 2&5 channel amps). Any combination that will give your fronts a whole lot of power will work. I like 3 channels of very high power as the center needs it for in H/T as much as the other front two. Those rears can suffice with a little less anyway, they don't have to do much work.
As pointed out, triggers or auto on in most of these amps eliminate any hassle.
Bryston processor are terrific but no video switching at all except standalone and thats a bit dated now. Anthem AVM-50 or Statment D-2 will offer a high degree of flexibility for any H/T system AND state-of-the-art video processing for everything hooked up to it with just one cable going to your display. Certainly worth a look.
Save money for a controller for all this gear, btw. One remote for everything! Universal Remote Control makes a MX900 that you can set up yourself without too much trouble, actually easy once you get used to it. Then, anyone will just have to push a few straight forward buttons and be in control.
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