mbarrett635

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21 year old AV receiver - waiting for the end?
I had an old Parasound AV2500 home theater preamp that I loved, so much that when it died (and to answer part of your question, it just died in the night and would no longer turn on), I found a used one to replace it. These go back about 25+ years... 
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I have a slightly different perspective. I ordered a Parasound A51 amp from New Age Electronics, at a price that seemed too good to be true. I had checked them out before I ordered, and they seemed legitimate. Long story short, it took almost thre... 
New AV preamp setup
@spenav   Wow, thanks. Of all the possible reasons, that one honestly never occurred to me.   
New AV preamp setup
All good advice, but a couple of things — I did update the software, and the speakers are Bose 901s, so no woofer/tweeter to be separately in/out of phase (although I guess one or more of the drivers could be out of phase with the others). It’s a ...