Improvement in Musicality for home theater system
As a first time poster I was hoping to get some feedback on improving the musical delivery, basically more refined sound from my hodgepodge of an old and new system. I have a smaller 16 by 12 room with heavy leather furniture and wood/ area rug, 1904 vintage. Due to the space and budget limitations, I purchased the Revel M126Be’s and had to ditch my 25 year old Proceed AVP for an Antham AVM 70 and had Audio Breakthroughs in Manhassett, NY come out and set it up. They hooked in a 20 year old Velodyne servo driven sub woofer. Now to my question: will replacing a 20 year old plus Adcom 5 channel amp with an Antham or Pass labs be a significant change? For source I mainly use a Blue Sound streamer.
For musicality you have another option that I think is better. Buy an integrated 2 channel amp (almost always better than an AV reciever) that has pre in. keep your current AV amp for watching movies. Run a preamp out signal from your AV amp to the Pre-in input on your 2 channel amp. When listening to music the AV amp isn't even turned on. When watching a movie, run both amps with your 2 channel amp on Prep-in. Pre in is also called direct or ht-bypass. --Jerry |
@maxwave Ok. I guess we agree. I just can't always follow your logic but you should end up with a good sounding system. Enjoy. --Jerry
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@maxwave You are strongly agreeing with my suggestion. You just don't understand how HT bypass works. --Jerry |
@maxwave I think we're mostly all in the same boat here. 2 channel comes first. Most high end amp manufacturers, especially in the tube area where I shop, don't put HT bypass on their amps, thinking if you can afford a $35K amplifier you should by a home with a dedicated theatre room, I guess. Good on Vinnie Rossi putting HT bypass in the Brama. --Jerry |
