Hi-Rez Highway

Posted by Christine Tham (R) on May 09, 2006 at 15:35:59

In Reply to: hi-rez hardware ... posted by fidelio on May 9, 2006 at 01:07:21:

Those "hideous bigass receivers" sound decent enough for home theatre but will fall short of a decent 2ch separates system. Lack of power is simply one of many reasons.

I lived with a home theatre solution for many years, but finally plunked for separate power amps for each channel and high quality pre amps. In fact, I now have all front channels bi-amped. I'm now even considering adding yet another 20A power circuit as I'm starting to suspect I don't have enough juice to power all those power amps (the living room lights literally dim as I progressively turn the amps on!).

I'm still embarrassed by the amount of money I paid - it would have been enough to buy me an absolute killer 2ch system, but hey, we only live once (unless you believe in reincarnation - but you can't take your system to the next life). And the results are worth it for great m-ch sound.