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In Reply to: What Amp/Receiver for Classical ? posted by sunnyjp on April 17, 2007 at 07:27:46:
In my way of thinking, electronics/speakers shouldn't sound "better" with one type of music over another, but my thinking is often flawed. :)That said, for classical music you will want to look for a combination that has lots of headroom. Well-recorded classical music, especially orchestral music, has a much wider dynamic swing than just about anything else (now, before anyone else attacks that last statement, I have two words for you: "Overture 1812").
So, you will want to look for things that will sound great at a lower volume level, and still have plenty of room left to not compress or distort at the bigger moments, say when the trombones enter in "Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral". :)
No specific brand/model suggestions at the moment, but I would look at the distribution of your available money at the moment. I would put more $$ into the speakers, then the preamp at this point, and get an acceptable, but maybe not extravagant, amp at this point.
When I set up my system, I got lucky and hit a home run on my speaker purchase (after listening to about 30 different ones anyway), and each upgrade in electronics since then has been audible. In other words, I haven't yet reached my speaker's "limit".
I know this isn't exactly the answer to the question you asked, but I hope it helps anyway.
Follow Ups:
I am kinda confuse about whether to get a Receiver or an Amp or intergrated amp? Can anyone point me to the right way? I know that receiver allows you to have some control over the sound, like equilizer, thats basically all I understand about receivers.
Reciever's have evolved into Home Theater receivers with numerous functions built into one unit. They combine, preamp, amp, tuner, Home Theater decoder and sometimes DAC all in one box.An integrated amp is a combination amp and preamp in one box with (usually) no other functions.
Hard core audiophiles tend to buy seperates i.e. separate stand alone amp, preamp, tuner DAC, etc.
The theory is that you get better quality by buying seperates. You also have more flexability by buying separates. Of course it's more expensive buying seperates.
Thanks a lot for the information! That was very clearly explained.
I have one more question, you said Receiver has Home theater decoder. Now, I have a Denon dvd-2910 which is a universal dvd player, if I get a receiver, which will do the decoding job?
> > which will do the decoding job? < <It depends.
1. How old is your DVD? Does your DVD have a toslink or digital coax out connection?
2. Is there a setup configuration in the menu of your DVD. The setup might allow for a raw data out via the digital connection.
3. To have the Panny do the audio decoding you'd have to connect the two using a digital connection, coax or toslink. Plus the DVD menu would have to have the "raw data out" selected. The Panny would use its decoder. There's some additional settings on the Panny for enhancements as well.
4. If you allow the DVD to do the decoding (via the setup menu)then you feed the decoded data to the Panny via the digital connection.
The Panny would do nothing but feed the ampliphied signal to the speakers.
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