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I have a pair of Vandersteen 3A Sigs and VSM Sig rears and want to upgrade the Pre/Pro and amp(s). I like the sound of the bi-amped 3As and so would probably want a 7 channel amp for 5.1 sound.Any suggestions? Price is always an object and I am looking at boout $ 2-4 K for each the pre/pro and the amp.
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As you probably already know, the Vandersteen speakers are all time aligned using first order crossovers and therefore are inherently inefficient. To make them sound their best you ought to consider an amp that can produce significant power and low distortion. Tube units sound great but to get lots of power it can be expensive. Richard Vandersteen uses Audio Research amplifiers with his 5As.I have used Bryston and McCormack solid state amps with my Vandersteen speakers over the years and they have both performed well. I favor the Bryston amps because of their 20 year no qestions asked warranty.
Another option would be to integrate a powered Vandersteen 2Wq subwoofer with the 3As thereby reducing the power requirements on your amp. Now you can start thinking tubes.
NAD makes a pre/pro ands a seven channel amp that are loaded with features, are user friendly, warranteed (P and L) for 2 years, and best of all are very musical. For the pre/pro, make sure you get the updated version which has Dolby Pro Logic IIx to simulate seven channel sound.
After thinking about it a bit. Would it be reasonable or possibl eto use tubes on the front when I use 2 channel and the use a solid state for the center and rears when I use the HT? That would seem to be the best of both worlds unless there would be some problem I don't know about.Anyone ever set up this way?
I am a great beliver in having all five (or seven) channels identical
(identical speakers, identical distance from the sweet spot, identical levels set by meter, and identical amplification). Deviating from this ideal leads to a discontinuity in the "accoustic bubble" one is trying to create in a multi-channel home theater. It would seem that mixing tubes and transistors can lead to this discontinuity. Across the front pans especially would suffer.
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