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How to get 2 Channel and Home theater in one packa

Question for a friend

Any suggestions to get excellent 2 channel and HT in one package. Serious 2 channel that means not Denon HT receivers or what ever.

Budged for amplification ~ $3000 so used pre power is possible.
Any ideas please, has to have 5 c or 2 c option in a single system. I am looking for the best possible way to get both:)

Thanks
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eandylee
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I was asking similar quesion to myself and fellow A'goners.

I ended up with http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vdone&1097693275&read&3&4&

I'm pretty satisfied with it, and I'm planning to upgrade to 568 for the 2ch improvement.

With this set up - HT is Exellent, and 2CH is Very nice.

However, If I start again from scratch, I might consider getting 2 separate systems going for bettter 2ch and very nice 5ch receiver or less expensive pre/pro with 5ch amps such as Outlaw.
eandylee
124 posts
 
oh, my reasoning of totally separate systems over 'combo' system is because of the matching speakers and amp problem.

One important thing on HT is to get the matching set of speakers.

If you have a expensive set of fronts for 2ch, you are forced to get the rest of the expensive matching center and rears.

Also, it's better to kind of 'match' the amps, too, unless you don't care about the overall quality of HT, which case, why bother in the first place, just get a HarmanKardon Receiver and decent speaker package.

Balancing is important in HT.

Thus, overall you might end up spending more than you need trying to do the combo way.

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