Which 5 ch Amp for Home Theater?

If you can find it discounted, the Musical Fidelity HT600 can easily withstand comparison to Classe or Krell.

McCormack was coming out with a 5-channel amp, but I'm not sure it's out yet. If it's out it'll probably give just about anything in the price range a run for the money and it should work wonders with your NHTs. Best of luck.

Tim

You must check out the ATI 1505. These are great amps. I own two of them. Pure, clean power. And Mike Pontelle at
ATI will personally answer any quwstions. I think the
ATI 1505 retails for about $1700, but they pop up in
classifieds here for around $1200. Good luck !

Note: the ATI multi-channel amps all are bridgeable, so
if you tire of HT and want to push 450 watts into your
mains, just move the banana jacks and flick a switch and
you will be taken into another dimension !

Tom

I used to have NHT speakers in my HT system - 2.9's up front with the AC-1. I always found them revealing as opposed to necessarily bright. Unforgiving. Anyway, I drove them with the Krell KAV-500. Absolutely excellent performance for movies, pretty darn good for music. If you want a warmer sound, you might check out the Proceed Amp5 (or the Amp2 plus an Amp3). There are some great deals lately on the KAV-500 used, but both of these are more expensive options than some that have been suggested. -Kirk

I have a carver 705 x 5 channel 125 watt amp. It was reviewed in SGHT. It is worth looking for used. New it was only about $1200-1500. It has great bass and a nice top end. Sounds better than a lot of $2000+ audiophile amps that I have heard. By the way (to give you some perspective on me for reference)I am a B&W man and I hate dry sounding anything. Give me warmth and tonality any day of the week and I'll worry about the soundstage later.