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| Help me choose amp for 2-channel HT Buy an Oppo 105. TiVo goes to 105 via HDMI. Use 105 as processor; it has fine DACs and video processing, so all you need in addition is an amp that you might find used from a reliable seller on Audiogon.db | |
| What's the deal with HT receiver gain levels? By the way, Dweller, if you are using your AVR as a surround amp, I'd suggest replacing it with a multichannel amp. A used amp from a reliable seller on Audiogon might be a good bet. The market for your AVR might be soft though. I assume the pream... | |
| What's the deal with HT receiver gain levels? Yeah, Dweller, I really don't understand your setup nor the rationale for your equipment, so I can't offer cogent suggestions. When I first replied I imagined you had stereo source to stereo preamp that you wanted to merge with 7.1 Oppo 105 and am... | |
| What's the deal with HT receiver gain levels? I recommend you visit the Oppo 105 owners' thread at AVS. Post 8934 provides a good explanation of setting speaker levels with the 105. Whether you use SE or XLR should make no difference other than XLR being 6 dB higher. THX v line level outputs?... | |
| What's the deal with HT receiver gain levels? That doesn't seem correct. I suggest you set the level of the 105 for one of the channels that doesn't go through the preamp to 75 dB SPL, using a sound level meter. Without changing the level of the 105, set the level of the preamp for a channel ... | |
| Best AV processors for under $10K Thinking that the development of analog stereo preamps is much more stable than that of processors, I opted for Oppo 105 processing with pass-through to a Parasound JC-2 preamp. Stereo from the Oppo, a Sony 5400ES, and JC-3 phono stage go through ... | |
| Oppo 105 in place of pre/pro Seditious3, I didn't understand the second sentence of your first paragraph. The Oppo has only digital inputs. An HD-DVR goes to the rear HDMI input of the 105 in my setup, and a Mac Min to the asynchronous USB. The Parasound JC-2 analog preamp ha... | |
| Oppo 105 in place of pre/pro A number of posters at the 105 owners' thread at AVS recommend eliminating a processor from the audio chain, and going directly from an Oppo 95 or 105 to amps. One claim is that the superior analog section of the 95 and 105 compared to the 93 and ... | |
| HT amp for music- please help Five Parasound JC-1s should give the decorator something to work with.If the Proceed Amp 5 is like the Amp 2 and Amp 3, it will have separate toroidal power transformers and power supplies for each channel. I used those amps for years before I mov... | |
| Sony XA5400es vs XA777es for sacd I wonder how system dependent Fishing's comparison might be. Through a Cary Cinema 11a I preferred the sound produced by the Oppo 105 to that of the 5400ES whether connected HDMI, SE, or XLR. Now stereo from both go through a Parasound JC-2 analog... | |
| H.T. Processor witch is better in sound... I never did a side-by-side comparison of the sound of the Proceed PAV/PDSD pair with the Cary Cinema 11a that replaced them, but I suspect the Proceed might be the winner by a small margin. The PAV/PDSD is in the living room now; the 11a is sittin... | |
| H.T. Processor witch is better in sound... I checked the Anthem web site and failed to see a trademark symbol in connection with the description of Anthem Room Correction (ARC).db | |
| H.T. Processor witch is better in sound... Kal,Are you sure Anthem has a trademark on ARC? As in Atlantic Richfield Corp as well as acoustic room correction that seems unlikely. Perhaps I haven't noticed the tm declaration next to ARC when used by Anthem. I innocently used ARC as an abbrev... | |
| H.T. Processor witch is better in sound... OP does not provide enough information. If the choice is just between the two processors and acoustic room correction is wanted, then It's probably the Anthem, because ARC was a major bug in the Cary 11a and likely to be in the 12 -- the Cary 11a ... | |
| Oppo 105 Analog vs HDMI? Are you sure the Marantz is passing through the analog from the Oppo without further processing? I took analog from the 105 through Cary 11a inputs set to by-pass and obtained a clean and open sound. Now stereo from the 105 goes through a Parasoun... |