Ok so i recently blew up my 5.1 reciever, it was a Denon which was pushing an all infinity 5.1 setup, primus line, 360 towers, 10 inch sub, primus 150 bookshelfs were my surround speakers, it sounded decent and had enough power for me i guess..
I got on Ebay a Pioneer elite 01THX reciever for a decent price to replace this, soon after i decided i need to make use of this 7.1 capability soo i went shopping, I picked up some Mirage speakers which sounded great in the store, i love these speakers but... my real problem im having lies in:
This receiver sounds great when i play ps3 or watch movies, but it doesn't push music as hard as i want it to, i've been thinking of picking up an amp to push it harder 90w/ch pre amp sounds really weak considering i know these speakers are nowhere near their limits on maxed volume, i'm also thinking of a bigger sub the towers do seem to dwarf the 10 incher, and i know its not because it's 10 inches, it just isnt being pushed hard enough.
yes i have tried all kinds of different settings on the reciever and it just isn't being pushed the same way no matter what i do with reciever settings, i set it higher DB and it sounds wrong, i have tried every setting and i cant get the same deep push from this sub as i could before without dwarfing out my mids and highs.
Really my question is this, given my current setup, what could anyone reccomend to make the speakers push harder? It sounds great on mid volumes and even at max volumes, but i know that it's nowhere near it's limits and i like my music a lot louder than my movies
I was thinking maybe a 5 channel amp for my music unless someone can recommend a decent priced 7 channel amp to push all 7 speaks
(i really am budget minded here, thats why i went with the infinity speakers i got back in like 2003.. i dont really like them but hey, it was a good price)
Either way i'm a little lost here and ot all sounded right with my denon but once i made a few changes it sounds all out of whack
