Hi,
I have owned both amp and preamp from adcom. The amps will never run out of power,very relieable also. Great amps for a home theater set up. I found the pre amp to be lacking in the detail, depth, air dept. The pre's just would'nt get out of the way for a all 2 channel system. I did however buy a better pre and used the amps for 2 channel music. I now use the Adcom amps { 555II, 5800, and 2- 5200} models for home theater. For 2 channel music tubes are the way to go. The Adcoms just can't do the mids and highs as smoothly as a good tube amp, and pre. The Adcoms do control bass somewhat better then tubes, but that should not be a suprise.
Brian
I have owned both amp and preamp from adcom. The amps will never run out of power,very relieable also. Great amps for a home theater set up. I found the pre amp to be lacking in the detail, depth, air dept. The pre's just would'nt get out of the way for a all 2 channel system. I did however buy a better pre and used the amps for 2 channel music. I now use the Adcom amps { 555II, 5800, and 2- 5200} models for home theater. For 2 channel music tubes are the way to go. The Adcoms just can't do the mids and highs as smoothly as a good tube amp, and pre. The Adcoms do control bass somewhat better then tubes, but that should not be a suprise.
Brian