Bloated bass and the panasonic digital receiver

Dmoffitt- The party mode is feeding 4 channels of stereo. I'm basically biamping my speakers { piega p10's.} This makes it 200wpc, which is more than the Belles i had before. I never noticed this bass bloat before. I was told the bass of the philips can sound this way also. Maybe i'm just turning it up louder now that i've got 200 wpc and noticing it more? I guess i need to get the rives cd to test my room.

Have you tried it in non-party mode?

I'll try that today and get back....

The XR45 does not output 100wpc, it's more like 70wpc. Also the amp does require about a week of running in for it's tonal balance to settle in. You need to tell us more about what kind of load the Piega's present in the bass region. Does it work best with a high current, high damping factor amp? If you're not matching SPL levels in your comparison, then your results can be very misleading. Also, party mode has no effect on sound quality.

The Panasonic XR45 is a marvelous value at a little over the $300 street price. It's a strong sonic performer in an all digital system competitive with anything I've heard for less than $1,000.

The most experience I've observed concerning the new Panny Digital Receivers is over at www.audiocircle.com. Check out the digital domain forum and the BolderCable manufacturesrs forum. There are lots of folks there using the Panny XR25 and XR45 for HT and 2-channel using "party mode".

Is it possible that the Panny is not happy with the load provided by your "big rig" speaker? If I remember correctly, the Panny is going to be more happy with an 8 ohm speaker.

I'll caution that, as always, these highly hyped "product of the week" might be very good values, but they generally don't hold up to truely hi-end products. I owned the Panny SA-XR45 and it was a very good reciever for $300, but it didn't hold a candle to my "real system"!!!

Enjoy,

TIC