I was hoping to see new AVRs coming out and prices dropping.
A few years back I got an itch and bought my front setup (L/C/R). It just made different problems by just throwing money at the problem and not doing enough research into what I wanted or what I could have. My brother also talked me into buying from his wholesaler. These were all big mistakes hindsight</SPAN></SPAN>.
The wholesaler was out of the center channel I wanted so I got the smaller
CMX 25C , which has Power Handling of 125 watts. For my right and left channels I got their
CMX 212 with Power Handling 300 watts. I had some small satellite</SPAN> speakers from an all-in-box HT set up and it felt unbalanced, so I came here, to the forums, to ask for help and was pointed towards a great buy, the
QS8. Axiom states that max handling power for 400 watts but they also give a min of 10 Watts a stat that Cerwin Vega does not make available</SPAN>. (I still am using the standalone sub from my Yamaha box set)
I hear that sometimes the speaker can damage the amp buy trying to draw more power than the amp can produce. I have thought about getting an independent </SPAN>amp for my right and left, but my current AVR, Sherwood Newcastle R-774bk doesn't seem to have preamp outputs. To add fuel to the fire, the video hasn't been displaying when being turned on every now and then. So I thought it might be time to upgrade. I have looked at the preamp/processor with amp route for the future upgrade potential </SPAN>but it doesn't seem very cost effective.
This is my current plan. Once I get home I am going to see if I am capable of a bi-amp connection with my hardware set up. If I am not able or my R-774 is acting up more than it has, than I will be looking into getting a Denon
AVR-X4000 or go the extra mile and run with
AVR-4520CI. If any of you have some better suggestions please let me know I am open to ideas.
Thanks for those who read this far.
Scip
