Save you the trouble: you can never get the best out of anything. No matter what you do, something can always be better. Any speaker however good or bad you will hear improvement with a better amp. Any amp, however good or bad, same thing. Including even AVR which you are right to wonder about that.
Diminishing returns are another fallacy. Except in the case of channels. From mono to stereo, huge returns! From stereo to add a center, nada. Nothing. Stereo already has a good center image. From stereo to surrounds, worse than nada, the processor ruins the stereo quality.
One simple decision- to go stereo instead of multi-channel- frees up so much money you can afford much, much higher quality. Vastly higher quality. As in no comparison higher quality.
Run the HDMI direct from your video source to your video monitor. Run your video sound direct from your source to your stereo integrated amp. Thank me later, when you hear how freaking awesome this is.
Diminishing returns are another fallacy. Except in the case of channels. From mono to stereo, huge returns! From stereo to add a center, nada. Nothing. Stereo already has a good center image. From stereo to surrounds, worse than nada, the processor ruins the stereo quality.
One simple decision- to go stereo instead of multi-channel- frees up so much money you can afford much, much higher quality. Vastly higher quality. As in no comparison higher quality.
Run the HDMI direct from your video source to your video monitor. Run your video sound direct from your source to your stereo integrated amp. Thank me later, when you hear how freaking awesome this is.