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Question on 2 channel vs 5 channel amps ?

I am currently running a sherbourn 5210 5 channel 200x 5 amp, pushing a pair of aerial 7B's , cc3 center anf sr3 rears, the amp works fine with these speakers, I am considering getting a seperate 2 channel amp for the 7B's and letting the sherbourn do the center and surrounds, I am considering the classe 301, krell kav 250 and the rowland 112, my question is, will I hear a signifigant improvement in 2 channel, or would it not be worth the investment, thanks all
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misskuma
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Ideally, you want to have all same speakers/amps in all channels on multi applications.

I figure the rear won't matter so much and got different makes of speakers from the front.
Boy, was I wrong. When the sound field cross over front to back or vice versa,
I hear the shift. ( say helicopter flying over you and so forth )
misskuma
75 posts
 
Get the two channel amp from the same maker.
Otherwise, you'll hear a tonal balance shift in multi channel mode.

I dunno which one comes closest to the one you have. Those three
you've listed sure sound diffrent from one another.
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