Hello,
I have been where you are. I dont mind your purchase. But I feel like you wasted money that you did not have to. Your not buying more speakers so you are combining HT and 2ch together. Emotiva makes a fully differential linear balanced 2 channel preamp. XSP-1. It has HT pass through, subwoofer management, and even matches your amps. It sells for $800 used. It does not have a DAC. I bought a used XDS-2 DAC to go with it for $300 used. I own this and is very good for the money. But. As long as the Parasound has HT bypass, which I believe they do you did solve your problem very well. HT processors have so much DSP sound manipulation you won’t even notice the front two amps are different. Now that you have two extra amps I think you should add some height speakers. In fact you might get two more of the model you have and do a 5.4.1 system. Or keep the original 7.1 layabout and go 7.2.1. If you don’t have two rows of seating I would go 5.4.2. Yes, get another sub if you don’t have two. I am doing the same you are doing but with the 7704 model. I hope this helped.
I have been where you are. I dont mind your purchase. But I feel like you wasted money that you did not have to. Your not buying more speakers so you are combining HT and 2ch together. Emotiva makes a fully differential linear balanced 2 channel preamp. XSP-1. It has HT pass through, subwoofer management, and even matches your amps. It sells for $800 used. It does not have a DAC. I bought a used XDS-2 DAC to go with it for $300 used. I own this and is very good for the money. But. As long as the Parasound has HT bypass, which I believe they do you did solve your problem very well. HT processors have so much DSP sound manipulation you won’t even notice the front two amps are different. Now that you have two extra amps I think you should add some height speakers. In fact you might get two more of the model you have and do a 5.4.1 system. Or keep the original 7.1 layabout and go 7.2.1. If you don’t have two rows of seating I would go 5.4.2. Yes, get another sub if you don’t have two. I am doing the same you are doing but with the 7704 model. I hope this helped.