Rotel rmb 1066 or polk RTi10 and csi5

[Jeff5347]

So I am looking at a rotel rmb 1066 on CL for 219 and was curious if this amp is something to purchase or leave. Back story....I have a denon 4400. ..Athena tech asf2 mains and a Polk t30. The rotel is a 6x60 or 5x 70 w amp. If I purchased the amp I would run bridged in 3 channel mode to 150w x 3. My question is this a good amp being from early 2000s. Would I relieve any difference vs just running the avr? Any known problems or is it a get it now amp? My other question is would it be better to purchase the amp or another post has Polk rti10's and a csi5 center for sale about the same price.
Would you get the amp, speakers or none. Thanks in advance

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[lovinthehd]

Personally I wouldn't buy an amp to run bridged, I'd just get an appropriate amp. Plus would be little different from your avr now. May work for your speakers/situation, tho. Someone I know that used to run an amp company had this to say about bridging that I copied from another discussion (Bob Lee of QSC):

Contrary to common myth, running an amp in bridged mono is not destructive to the amp, nor does it cause more distortion, nor any other bad things. As Jerrold and Mark Hellinger said, bridged mono is just two amp channels working together--one pushing while the other pulls, and vice-versa--to produce twice the potential voltage swing and quadruple the potential power of a single channel.

That can be a good (even vital) thing if you want a lot of headroom and only one monaural source of audio power.

Operating bridged into a 4-ohm load is electrically equivalent to operating at 2 ohms per channel, and bridged into 8 ohms is like 4 ohms on each channel.

It's not worth making more complicated than it actually is.

 

[pewternhrata]

Avrx4400?
If your itching to spend something, better deal would be the polks. Not a big polk fan myself, but if your any bit unhappy with sound, speakers first. Call the guy and go take a listen.