Basically I find this whole speaker/ amplification/ wires etc paradigm to be the same as cars.
Sure you can get a ferrari and run it on crap tires with low octane gas...but you think any ferrari drivers do that? hell no....they want the "full potential" to get the final 5-10% that its capable of doing... Just realize...a ferrari with bad tires and regular class still whips the pants off most other cars in every way imaginable :)
Well it seems everyone here is saying the same thing...you wont get the POTENTIAL on that receiver.
I CERTAINLY think going with the Contours is gonna easily outclass the audience series regardless of what your running on.
I find amplification/preamp to only make a small impact on sound.
I feel speakers alone get up to 90% of their potential on their own, and the rest of the stuff + positioning makes up the final 10% of potential.
Sure you can get a ferrari and run it on crap tires with low octane gas...but you think any ferrari drivers do that? hell no....they want the "full potential" to get the final 5-10% that its capable of doing... Just realize...a ferrari with bad tires and regular class still whips the pants off most other cars in every way imaginable :)
Well it seems everyone here is saying the same thing...you wont get the POTENTIAL on that receiver.
I CERTAINLY think going with the Contours is gonna easily outclass the audience series regardless of what your running on.
I find amplification/preamp to only make a small impact on sound.
I feel speakers alone get up to 90% of their potential on their own, and the rest of the stuff + positioning makes up the final 10% of potential.