Dear All
Current Set Up - Yamaha A870 7.2 AVR connected as below
Oled C8 via Optical and HDMI
LR - B&W 603s new connected to Crown XLS 1502 ( Pre out from Yamaha)
Centre - B&W HTM6
Front Heights - Polk OWMs3s
Surrounds - Bose 301 Series V
No Sub as some local challenges
Had bought a used NAD T754 for driving LCR ( as power amp ) and the balance thru the Yamaha so that i get the 7.0 ( no sub)
Query - I use my set up primarily for Movies and less for Music
I was thinking of 3 options
1. Use the T754 as power amp for driving LCR ( remove the crown XLS 1502) - Use Yamaha A870 for the rest so get 7 Channel
2. Use the T 754 as power amp for driving 5 Channels - LCR SR SL and the rest 2 from Yamaha to get the 7 Channel
3. Connect the Oled to T754 using Optical and get 5.1 but then the Yamaha and all its features get wasted
I was hoping to use the NAD signature sound for driving LCR while for the rest i could use the Yamaha - Is that even possible.
Thank you and Have a wonderful enlightening safe year.
Rajesh
Does the Yamaha have pre amp outputs for all the channels? Is your setup 7.2? Does the Yamaha provide 7 channel amplification? Are you doing this just to get the NAD to do the amplification?
I am doing exactly this except with a NAD T763 as power amp and denon x4300h as receiver. My setup is 7.2.4 and denon only has 9 channels for amp and not 11. So I removed the external jumpers on the nad (the connects the preamp outputs to power amp in (main in), and connected the LCR SL SR to the NAD and the rest of the channels are powered by denon.
I did audyssey calibration and it works great. One thing to consider, i wired it to main in so that the volume control on nad is bypassed. Can you do the same kind of wiring on your 754? Compare the sound of Yamaha only and Yamaha and nad. What speakers are you using?
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