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Been an avid HT listener

I have been an avid HT listener and have not perused integrate amps

But lost my center channel on my old Rotel 5 channel amp and have been using the 2-channel option

I find it more enjoyable and both music and TV are coming in more clear and the voices are more understandable. I'm not straining to hear midrange vocals

So my question is if I pursue this what integrated amp should I check out that gives me the vocal range and also the sub range. I have been looking at the Marantz Cinema 60 ut it may be more than I need. Looking at a Stereo receiver that will be a balance between music and still give me great sound with movies. Is there such a peice of equipment that can satisfy both music and movies?

dennis041992

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mahler123
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Is this the case with multi channel source material?

I could be that your Rotel simply didn’t do decent multichannel decoding, and that it is now defaulting to 2 channel.

  If you like what you are hearing now, why change?

mahler123
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If you like what you are hearing currently, tell me again why you feel the need to change?  

I haven’t heard a 2 channel receiver since 1998 so I can’t help you there.  My bias would be to get an integrated amp unless you really need the analog tuner.  Rotel still makes them, I believe.  You seem to like their house sound.

  Another way to go would be to get a separate amp for the center channel and use the pre out on your current AVR .  You might find that works better yet as I suspect that the output from your AVR to the center channel was faltering for a while before it stopped completely 

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