Denon's are nice. It's not a high end 2 channel pre though. Also, it's very easy to overdrive the amp section if you are running 5 speakers at a decent volume. Using external amps should help. Even by just driving your R&L speakers with an external amp should help the center and rears to sound better.
where should i go from here?
i have a denon avr3802 with energy veritas speakers, tried hooking up a conrad johnson mf2100 to see if i could get more majic(cleaner and more overhead)the denon was my pre. it did not have the brilliance i was looking for. the room is basically 15by 15.using outdoor electrical wire as speaker wire. i hav a paradigm pw1200 powered sub,plenty of low end 1 to 3k price range thanks ahead of time for the help. do i need more power? better amp? are those speakers capible? bryon lundberg