I know it's over your budget, but there's an Anthem MCA-50 on audiogon for $1150.
Picking an amplifier
I have the following speakers:
NHT 2.1 Front LR 200W @ 6ohms
NHT AC1 Center 150W @ 8 ohms
NHT SW2 Subwoofer 200W @ 8 ohms
The rear speakers are inconsequential (and boxed up) they might come out to play when I move to bigger digs.
I’ve been using NHTs 214s and 216s, (think lightbulbs) but the market is drying up. I remain unconvinced they are worth the shipping & costs to repair.
My (current) short list of replacement amps:
Outlaw Audio model 770 7 (7 channels)
Bryston 9B ST (5 channels) (2 years left on warranty)
Parasound 5125 (5 channels)
The budget is $1000, I have located sources for all three at or below $1000.
Any/all discussion of suitability, repair outlook, and peanut shells welcome. From a listening perspective, I've been fine with the NADs, but am priced out of the newer models. Nuts, I might even repair the NADs if I find the right person with the skills & tools.
NHT 2.1 Front LR 200W @ 6ohms
NHT AC1 Center 150W @ 8 ohms
NHT SW2 Subwoofer 200W @ 8 ohms
The rear speakers are inconsequential (and boxed up) they might come out to play when I move to bigger digs.
I’ve been using NHTs 214s and 216s, (think lightbulbs) but the market is drying up. I remain unconvinced they are worth the shipping & costs to repair.
My (current) short list of replacement amps:
Outlaw Audio model 770 7 (7 channels)
Bryston 9B ST (5 channels) (2 years left on warranty)
Parasound 5125 (5 channels)
The budget is $1000, I have located sources for all three at or below $1000.
Any/all discussion of suitability, repair outlook, and peanut shells welcome. From a listening perspective, I've been fine with the NADs, but am priced out of the newer models. Nuts, I might even repair the NADs if I find the right person with the skills & tools.
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Auxinput: I have both, just checking to see if anyone thought there’s a difference between the Bluray & DVD audio. Home theater.... As an audience we’re lucky if they get the production mix of stereo right. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve come tracked down a group in a soundtrack that was well produced, only to find out that the rest of their material is garage band stuff. The movie Roadhouse - Jeff Healey band is an example. DVD movie titles have me running out of batteries in the remote as they play stupid games with the audio. Home theater is 5.1 more ways for hollywood to screw up. I wouldn’t bother with home theater video if it were’t for exceptional movies that come along once or twice a year. Mostly it’s an excuse to have more speaker sizes and a really, really, really, really good 40" 4K IPS monitor. If I were to sum things up, detail, accuracy and power work for me. That lets the source do its thing w/o any barriers. Engineering joke: speed, cost, quality: choose two. |
auxinput: you mean this? Anthem AVM 50 Home Theater Preamplifier / Processor; I'm riding my Sony DSP-EP9ES till it dies. I see I left it out of my original post. |
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