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In Reply to: Re: from 2 channel to Home Theater posted by Sam M on April 14, 2003 at 08:01:35:
Hello Sam,Thanks for your very quick respons.
One of my alternatives where also to put my existing poweramp in the preouts on the surround- receiver/amplifier, and use the other 3 power channels in the surround receiver/amplifier for the center and rear speakers
But I do think that it is very few surround receiver/amplifiers that have a very good pre-unit, unless you spend a whole lot of money on it.
However, I have heard that the company THULE should have a preamp/processor, where you can by-pass the digital units when using it for normal 2 channel stereo. I have to dig into that before I decide on where to go, Home Theater wise.
Brdgs.
Lars
Follow Ups:
I had your problem exactly. You can look at my system to see what I've done.I have a Denon 5800 Receiver. It was supposed to be the highest-rated for sound! Well, the internal DACs do an okay job, but are a bit too bright and hashy on the highs. They tend to sound clear but "thin". It doesn't have good jitter rejection either, as the quality of the digital cable and transport affect the sound to a high degree. However, the analog bypass is junk. There is no life left to the sound on stereo sources. Turntable, CD -- they all have the high-frequencies and the detail severely degraded.
So, unless you are willing to go for a separate pre/pro, rather than a receiver, I am will bet that you will NOT get acceptable stereo sound, even with an analog bypass mode. So, you will likely need a separate stereo preamp with a home-theatre bypass mode.
I use a placette passive preamp. I keep it at "full volume" when on the HT input, which essentially takes the resistors out of the circuit, and makes it "like" a HT bypass. I'm told that Placette will install a real HT bypass for about $100 on the unit.
I have a Bel Canto DAC2, and the quality of sound is awesome. However, if you are using a cheap DVD or CD player as your source, you may not get so much improvement from a separate preamp -- your sound is only as good as your worst component.
I've always used a Bryston 4B-ST to drive the main speakers.
I hope that helps.
Neil
The Sony ES receivers have the stereo analog bypass feature also... and you can hear an audible improvement when you use it... "Analog Direct" is the name of the feature on the Sonys.You know i've been compring the sound of my mods to the receiver as a pre for music to a good little creek passive pre i have in order to hear how close i can get with the receiver.... and after the mods i made, the difference is really quite negligeable. (ofcourse does not compare to other HIGH end pres, though...) I think i have found a good solution for HT and 2 channel audio qualities in my system, but YMMV.
Sam
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