ROTEL VS YAMAHA RXV1500

VMAN71,

Its funny you say that because that was my initial plan. But, my local audio guy is telling me I would get more improvement by replacing the Yamaha. The supposed sensitivity of the Def tech lcr's are 92db. Is the power reserve of a larger amp going to make a difference...

I'm sure that others will chime in but I think that Yamaha will do an excellent job with processing. I think you'll hear a nice difference by changing out that Adcom amp. A couple of reasons, better quality amplification (I'm not really an Adcom fan) and combining that with the proper amount of power (with reserve headroom), will yield an improvement.

Vman71,

Any suggestions on amps...I basically had a chance to audition the adcom at home and got a great deal on the Gon...

I've been very happy with my Sunfire amp and for the cost, I think it offers a tremendous value (used). I've heard/read really good things about B&K. These are two that come to mind that will not break the bank and offer 7 channel amps. I would personally try and find or wait for one of the older model Sunfire Signature's to come up. They were originally 400watts/ch and then version 2 was 425watts/ch.

My 1068 is a Pro only not a reciever but I did use pre outs on an Onkyo I owned prior, the sound wasnt vastly better and I quickly fihured that a seperate preamp/processor was in order...........and it was a big step up in performance. The Rotel (reciever or Processor) have cross over settings of 20,40,60,80,100hz plus bass and treble controls for each channel (agreat feature) you can also have seperate settings for dolby and stereo 2 channel and you SACD inputs.....it is very flexible!