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Persona 3fs - Need advice for 2.1 or 3.1 system in bedroom

Hello, need some advice for a system I am building in my 14x19x9 ft bedroom.  I have the persona 3fs (will have them in about 4 months), but deciding on whether I should get the center channel which is huge and costly and which amp to get for the 3fs?  I have narrowed it down to the coda 8 amp V2 - 250 watts, since I like my music loud and movies 70%movies/30%music, or the anthem str?   I have the Marantz 7705 right now for my receiver. I plan on selling my three  outlaw monoblocks which I have now in my old system but should I save one monoblock for the persona middle channnel or get a three channel amp or just stay with the 2 channels or get another middle channel from paradigm?  Also, will the Marantz suffice for both amps (Coda or anthem) and my system?  I have a new svs sb4000 subwoofer, too.  Thanks in advance for the advice.
brandon123
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cbrents73
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Hi Brandon,

My name is Chris and I’m a Regional Sales Manager for Paradigm & Anthem. I thought I would throw out a suggestion as an alternative for your Center Channel predicament. If the Persona Center is too big, you can get a single Persona B Bookshelf Speaker to use as the Center - it works great for that!

I’m sorry we didn’t win you over with our Defiance X Series, Seismic 110, Prestige, or Persona Subwoofers that utilize our Anthem Room Correction Genesis Software and (2 US Patented) ART Surround Woofers that are also in your Persona 3F’s to mate with them, but our MCA Amplifiers are on sale right now through May 31, 2020, and will mate with your Marantz piece.

If I can be of any more help, please let me know.

Thanks for your time!
Chris




yyzsantabarbara
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I have demoed the 3F and 5F and loved them both. I decided to get something else but the Persona was one of my favorites. A 9H maybe in the future for another room. I demoed the 3F with a Class D NAD and the 5F Class AB SimAudio 860A. The SimAudio was excellent and the NAD was very good. When I was demoing them I was thinking a warm sounding amp would be the best.

When I was thinking of the 3F I was considering the Anthem STR or the Coda #8 after a few conversations with A’gon users who have that combo. I got feedback that those 2 combos were very good.

Not sure I would get a center channel given how good the imaging is on the Persona. Especially for a bedroom system.

I am pasting the following quote from the Audio Doctor. I would look at the following amps he describes as warm.


There are families of sound certain amplifier companies are in the fast, transparent and perhaps a bit lean or just slightly warm: Spectral, Audionet, Ayre, Chord, Sim, Bryston, Solution, T+A, all tend to fall in this area

Then there are the warmer richer amps which may or may not accentuate the the bass with a more polite top end: Dagastino, new Krell XD, Parasound, Anthem STR, Pass Labs, Coda, Darthzeel, Thrax, Ypsilon.

then there are the very neutral punchy amplifiers Hegel, Nuprime, ARC, later CJ, VTL.





yyzsantabarbara
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The following review maybe of interest to you. Especially someone who like to play it loud.

https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/digital-reviews/spdif-dac-reviews/anthem-str-preamplifier-and-power-amplifier/ 


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