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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. 

hondaron
sgreg1
612 posts
 

Some will argue different but IMO if you want good two channel you need it as a stand alone system. Any time you try to do both you are compromising some where!

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maxwave
901 posts
 

@rajugsw 
BAT VK50-SE : production stop 2004. A bit old.

Orchard Audio Ultra Amplifiers : ´´No opinion on the amp as I haven’t heard it, but your post is rude and your grammar is bad.´´ @roxy54 08/11/2021 11.09am

I do not called anyone ´´ Audiophools ´´

According to you ;

@gerrie @carlsbad , and many others ,are wrong here , suggesting integrated amp. with home theater bypass for 2 channels music listening.

My understanding is that HT receiver and HT processor are targetting ´´ sound

effects ´´ . Their inner electronics are not as well insulated as integrated or preamp.

dedicated to quality music only.

I think than a 15000$ integrated or preamp-amp. will sound better for 2 channels

listening than a 15000$ HT processor-7 channels power amp. for the same 2 channels listening.

But I may be wrong, we are here to discuss and learn.

Regards

 

 

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carlsbad
1,551 posts
 

@maxwave You are strongly agreeing with my suggestion.  You just don't understand how HT bypass works. --Jerry

gerrie
107 posts
 

With a home theater bypass you only use the amp for the front. And if i play 2channel i used mine stereo that's have nothing todo with the receiver.

2channel amp with bypass is a pure high end amp. Take a look at the musical fidelity or the Hegel.

 

hondaron OP
16 posts
 

Excellent ideas folks thanks. Need to listen and then make sure I can use it in a manner fully described by Jerry and also one other gentlemen on the post. It’s getting we excited that I can actually upgrade the sound quality significantly from the present level. Getting on with it, thanks to all for the education 

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