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Parasound P7 or Cary Cinema 11 ?

I have the Cary Cinema 11 (not the 11a) and it works and has no issues. I ordered a Parasound P7 and await its arrival. I just read a thread on here that said the Cary sounded as good as the P7 ..interesting..
could this be true? this is for music only with HT every now and then
gentlejax

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auxinput
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the Parasound P7 is strictly a 7 channel analog preamp only with some bass management options.

The Cary Cinema 11 is a full blown HT processor with HDMI inputs and full
audio decoding for everything up to bluray Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA.  It also includes a 7 channel preamp (using the 7.1 analog inputs).

They are about the same for power supply and analog stages.  It is likely that you won't see a significant improvement. 
auxinput
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If you want to look for options on upgrading the Cary:

- Bryston SP3
- Classe SSP-800
- Krell Foundation (although it doesn't have 7.1 analog inputs, but since it's a digital processor, you don't really need it).
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