Improvement in Musicality for home theater system
As a first time poster I was hoping to get some feedback on improving the musical delivery, basically more refined sound from my hodgepodge of an old and new system. I have a smaller 16 by 12 room with heavy leather furniture and wood/ area rug, 1904 vintage. Due to the space and budget limitations, I purchased the Revel M126Be’s and had to ditch my 25 year old Proceed AVP for an Antham AVM 70 and had Audio Breakthroughs in Manhassett, NY come out and set it up. They hooked in a 20 year old Velodyne servo driven sub woofer. Now to my question: will replacing a 20 year old plus Adcom 5 channel amp with an Antham or Pass labs be a significant change? For source I mainly use a Blue Sound streamer.
If the Adcom 5 channels , is used for surrounds speakers , keep it. The front and center channels are the most important. They deserve a good power amp. This is my opinion. @auxinput Is better than me for this matter.
But for 2 channels music , a home theater processor , will not give you the same musicality than a preamplifier or a integrated amplifier. |
That is a hard one. The problem is surround processors are dense digital electronics in a tiny box. Not a place to create a musical signal. Most musical systems are simple two channel tube based systems (or very carefully chosen solid state). The easiest way to do it would be to use good tube preamp and bypass the processor for music. I would think that another possibility would be a very high end (like $20K… really expensive) surround processor and warm musical amp. I have not been in the market for a while, so I can’t point to a solution. But obviously this wouldn’t be much help anyway.
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I run a 2 channel tube pre with an XLR switch to bypass my processor (Trinnov AL16). The only time I use the tube is when playing vinyl or cassette tapes. The Trinnov does digital very well, the room correction is excellent. When setting up the system do your 2 ch system first, adjust the speakers to get the best sound, then do the room correction for the AV unit. |
