Legacy Focus XD - will I ever upgrade?

Not surprised at that reviewer’s findings in regard to the Legacy i.V2 amp. Having worked with 2 vs. 4 channels of the i.V4 Ultra, I would not be without the two additonal channels for use with any speaker, from efficient to more difficult to drive. Big difference in perfomance with the extra two channels, which brings up the resolution and refinement without penalty. It’s such a large improvement that I would not even consider running only two channels on any setup when 4 are availalble. Why starve a system from the extra 600wpc? :)

My review of the i.V4 Ultra (in fact, I reviewed a pair of them, offering up to 8 channels of amplification, 4,800 total wpc into 8 Ohms - I put such things to good use) is at Dagogo.com, and I have to say that the Whisper with the Legacy XTREME XD Subs in such a setup (12 fifteen inch drivers altogether) is otherwordly in terms of dynamics. Scary capacity to pressurize the room even at low listening level. Some of the best sessions of detecting and appreciating LF in any system I have heard. That made the Focus seem like a bookshelf speaker in comparison.

Imo, putting another pair of speakers in for mains for HT would be a misstep. If I recall correctly, I used the Outlaw Audio’s (I don’t put big money into HT) pre outputs into the Wavelet for HT. Calibrate for level, and you’re set.

Right now, I am using the pre outs from a Yamaha AV Receiver into the emotiva pre amp with home theater bypass on. Then when switching to 2 channel audio, I turn off HT bypass which returns all controls to the pre amp where I have my streamer hooked up to a pre amp input and from there, on to the power amp and speakers. Would wavelet accomodate a similar if not true HT bypass function. Whats great about the HT bypass circuitry is that it turns off all functionality of the pre amp circuitry (including volume) and just passes the signal on to the power amp which eliminates having to level or balance volume between mains and surrounds as volume is 100% controlled by the AV receiver in HT bypass mode. (I should mention that I have these Focus XD speakers bi - amped as the internal power amp in thr speakers is driving the woofers)

Bringing this back up as I wonder if @douglas_schroeder or others have any insight regarding the AMT tweeter differences in the Focus SE V1 vs the current AMT setup? The Focus HD brought across the board differences in drivers, compared to earlier versions of the Focus. The current Focus SE (and other models) have a later version of the AMT tweeter as compared to Focus HD and the "V1" version of the Focus SE. I haven’t found commentary from Bill Duddleston (or others) about that progression and wondering what the feedback is on the first version of that AMT setup vs the current version.

In other words, is one giving up much in performance by having the HD version of the AMT vs current setup?

Thanks for any feedback.

Any feedback about the current vs previous AMT setup?

Thanks

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