Its definitely an AVR. Anthem MRX740. Im using the Anthem MCA325 3 channel amp for my LCRs. Which are Paradim 120H's and a 90C. I initialy bought the amp when I was using a Marantz cinema 60 because it didnt preform well at louder volumes. The amp fixed that. The loudness part anyway. Movies sounded pretty dam good, music not so much....So through advice from this forum i realized that I had to get the Marantz out of the 2 channel path for music. So began looking at separates. Well, that gets very expensive and my space is limited. So I circled back around to AVRs. I realized tgat the cinema 60 was my weak link. So fast forward and I landed on the Anthem MRX 740 because it rates very well for 2 channel, has a very good preamp section, and I was told a good DAC. And it does sound really good pairered with my Paradigms. I was told by the dealer when I bought the MRX that I could bypass the internal DAC by using the analog inputs. Wrong.....after talking to Anthem, there is no way to bypass. I just want the ability to try out different stuff like streamers or DACs or CD players without running their signal through the Anthem DAC just to see if other components may give me a better 2 channel experience. So I figured why not use the balanced inputs on my amp??
I am new to this and have been having great fun learning. Thanks for any input.