Thanks for all of your thoughts. It seems pretty clear that I would be much better off with an amplifier upgrade at some point in the future.
This brings up two more questions regarding the amplifier questions.
1) How serious is the risk of clipping to my speakers with the current amp? On a scale of let's say "you'll be fine at moderate levels for the time being" to "don't listen to anything until you upgrade". As I said previously, I had noticed that on some passages it sounded like the amp didn't have an iron grip on things, but I hadn't thought about clipping problems.
2) What are your thoughts on amps that would be a good replacement? I would lean towards integrated but am open to separates in the sub $1500 category.
-DK Design
-Aragon 8008
-Krell 400xi (not sure this would be a good match)
-Nad M3
-Rotel 1090
-Parasound A21
just a few that I've looked at.
Thanks in advance!
JML
This brings up two more questions regarding the amplifier questions.
1) How serious is the risk of clipping to my speakers with the current amp? On a scale of let's say "you'll be fine at moderate levels for the time being" to "don't listen to anything until you upgrade". As I said previously, I had noticed that on some passages it sounded like the amp didn't have an iron grip on things, but I hadn't thought about clipping problems.
2) What are your thoughts on amps that would be a good replacement? I would lean towards integrated but am open to separates in the sub $1500 category.
-DK Design
-Aragon 8008
-Krell 400xi (not sure this would be a good match)
-Nad M3
-Rotel 1090
-Parasound A21
just a few that I've looked at.
Thanks in advance!
JML