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Theta Up-grade Advice

I need some advice from people who know about Theta Processors and Amps.

I’M thinking about either up-grading my Theta Casanova Processor to a Casablanca II, or up-grading my Theta Intrepid 5 channel Amp to a Dreadnaught I or II 5 channel or 3 channel Amp.

My question is, which would make the biggest difference. In other words, would up-grading the Processor to a Casablanca be smarter, or would up-grading the Amp to the Dreadnaught be smarter?

The Surround processing isn’t as important to me as the Stereo. Overall I’m really happy with the way things are now, but I’d like to make it better. Right now I’m kind of hooked on the Theta equipment. My other alternative is to get out of the surround sound stuff altogether, but I do enjoy it for DVD movies from time to time.

My speakers are the Acoustic Zen Adagios which are pretty efficient, and I run Kubala Fascination IC’s and SC’s, and all my power cables are Blacksand.

Your advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
raks

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cytocycle
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Upgrading from an Intrepid to a Dreadnaught (I or II) will be a pretty huge improvement.

Casanova to Casablanca upgrade will depend on how good your source is and are you using analog or digital inputs? a Casablanca with superior DAC's are pretty good but the Extreme card is pretty amazing. I would hold out for a Casablanca III instead of a Casablanca II. The Casablanca has an Analog pass through volume control so if you have a really excellent phono preamp or CD player, the Casablanca is a pretty amazing 2 channel preamp. I don't how the Casanova handles analog inputs.
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