I'd like to thank everyone for their responses thus far. I am investigating all of the suggestions to see what best suits my needs. Thankfully I have a couple months to look around and listen.
I agree with the above post about the T742, but in my opinion it lacked a little bit of power across the frequency range, coming up just a bit short in the bass department. I currently have the T742 swapped out in favor of a 1987 NAD 7250PE fed by analog outputs of my Denon player. Despite the slight loss of detail and air going from the supurb digital output to the analog outputs, I am more satisfied as a whole with the system as it sits. I also agree with the statement about the importance of a quality source, but my $99 refurb Denon DVD-900 absolutely smoked $700 and $300 NAD players as a transport. I previously used an NAD T550 and T531 player for about a year each for transport duty. I am hoping that the Denon (or perhaps a sturdier Denon or similar player) can continue to feed the digital input on something like a Wadia 830 with its low jitter signal for DVD use and leave pure music duty to the Wadia 830.
Another question for the A-Gon experts:
If I would use an amp such as the Le Amp II (used here as an example because it has XLR and RCA inputs).
I may be sharing a place with my friend. Would it be acceptable to plug the preamp outputs of his 6.1 receiver into the RCA outputs of the Le Amp II monos (or any otehr dual input amp) while feeding XLR inputs with the Wadia? I am envisioning a system such as this...(basically processing the signals in parallel - assuming it works the only downside I can see is having to enable bitstream on the DVD player when I want to pass PCM to the Wadia 830)
________________________________________
----/coax-bnc-> Wadia 830 -> XLR to Amp \
DVD-________________________________->speaker
----\toslink->receiver->receiver to Amp/
_____________________pre (RCA)
(sorry for the akward formatting but the posting applet wasn't recognizing spaces when I "previewed")
Is this a bad idea (will something blow if the monos receive RCA and XLR signals simultaneously)? What other bad consequences are forseen by those more knowledgable than myself?
This would give my potential roommate and I DD/DTS for movies when desired but still provide a good CD platform.
Thanks to all for help and suggestions.
I agree with the above post about the T742, but in my opinion it lacked a little bit of power across the frequency range, coming up just a bit short in the bass department. I currently have the T742 swapped out in favor of a 1987 NAD 7250PE fed by analog outputs of my Denon player. Despite the slight loss of detail and air going from the supurb digital output to the analog outputs, I am more satisfied as a whole with the system as it sits. I also agree with the statement about the importance of a quality source, but my $99 refurb Denon DVD-900 absolutely smoked $700 and $300 NAD players as a transport. I previously used an NAD T550 and T531 player for about a year each for transport duty. I am hoping that the Denon (or perhaps a sturdier Denon or similar player) can continue to feed the digital input on something like a Wadia 830 with its low jitter signal for DVD use and leave pure music duty to the Wadia 830.
Another question for the A-Gon experts:
If I would use an amp such as the Le Amp II (used here as an example because it has XLR and RCA inputs).
I may be sharing a place with my friend. Would it be acceptable to plug the preamp outputs of his 6.1 receiver into the RCA outputs of the Le Amp II monos (or any otehr dual input amp) while feeding XLR inputs with the Wadia? I am envisioning a system such as this...(basically processing the signals in parallel - assuming it works the only downside I can see is having to enable bitstream on the DVD player when I want to pass PCM to the Wadia 830)
________________________________________
----/coax-bnc-> Wadia 830 -> XLR to Amp \
DVD-________________________________->speaker
----\toslink->receiver->receiver to Amp/
_____________________pre (RCA)
(sorry for the akward formatting but the posting applet wasn't recognizing spaces when I "previewed")
Is this a bad idea (will something blow if the monos receive RCA and XLR signals simultaneously)? What other bad consequences are forseen by those more knowledgable than myself?
This would give my potential roommate and I DD/DTS for movies when desired but still provide a good CD platform.
Thanks to all for help and suggestions.