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cylwikd

Audiophyte
Should I use for front L&R on board Denon 5308ci amp or better use Parasound HCA-1500A ?
 
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MatthewB.

Audioholic General
Do you find the power currently lacking? I am all for adding seperate power amps, in fact on my Onkyo 805 I have three outboard stereo amps (one bridged for my center) one for my side surrounds and one for my rear surrounds and the Onkyo 805 now has enough juice to drive just my mains.

The 5308 has a huge amp and by relieving that amp of having to drive other channels then more power is available for what speakers are hooked up, but you have to remember that most of the time your amps are chugging along at just a few watts (3-5 watts 90% of the time) so unless your in a huge room, your blasting the movie and musics to ear deafining levels or your getting distortion out of your speakers during certain scenes during movies than what you have is fine.

If you think you'll get better sound by adding an amp, I can tell you that your money will be better well spent on room acoustics or better speakers and subs than on outboaed amps which will do nothing more than give you a 3db more output than what you are currently running and if your Denon is not giving you any sound issues, then the outboard amp is not money well spent.
 
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skers_54

Full Audioholic
I agree with everything MatthewB said, but I'd like to add that outboard amps are usually better with low impedance and insensitive speakers or large rooms.
 
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cylwikd

Audiophyte
Thanks

My system in Home Theatre 15' by18' (acoustically proof and tune) is:
Atlantic Technology THX 350 7.3
Denon AVR 5308ci THX
Parasound Amp HCA1500a THX
Panasonic BD55
Denon DVD2910
Luxman Turntable PX99
Monster Power HTS2600mkII

Can I use Audyssey to correct parameters with pre-out amp and how to do it?
Is this Parasound high current amp better quality then build in Denon?
Thanks for Yours posts, Darek
 
AcuDefTechGuy

AcuDefTechGuy

Audioholic Jedi
The amps inside the Denon 5308 are very nice and powerful and you most likely do not need external amps.

But being an Audioholic, you almost FEEL like you just GOTTA have external amps whether you need them or not.:D

I use the 300 watts per channel ATI AT3000 amps with my Denon 5308 not because I need to; it's because I want to.:D

Do I hear any differences in sound quality?

No.

Do I feel any differently?

Yes. I feel much better.:D
 

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