1. I'd look for a powered subwoofer (or 2; I have a pair of Woofers by Bob Dominators) to reproduce those special effects and to relieve your LRs from doing so. I suggest Outlaw or Hsu.
2. On poweramps, unless you buy Outlaw (and I did*), you'll spend a lot of money for very little gain.
And I too am with Snofun and Programmergeek--what don't you like about your system?
* I bought an Outlaw 770, a 7-channel, 200WPC-into-8, 300-into-4, 94-pound monster. It powers the 2 bass modules of my Eminent Technology 8s, both ends of an ET12 and dipolar subwoofer, and both surround channels, and very well indeed. I use Quicksilver V4s, 120 Watts of glorious tubed power per channel, for the MR/treble of the ET8s.
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2. On poweramps, unless you buy Outlaw (and I did*), you'll spend a lot of money for very little gain.
And I too am with Snofun and Programmergeek--what don't you like about your system?
* I bought an Outlaw 770, a 7-channel, 200WPC-into-8, 300-into-4, 94-pound monster. It powers the 2 bass modules of my Eminent Technology 8s, both ends of an ET12 and dipolar subwoofer, and both surround channels, and very well indeed. I use Quicksilver V4s, 120 Watts of glorious tubed power per channel, for the MR/treble of the ET8s.
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