In Reply to: Carver Sunfire vs Parasound AVC-2500 posted by Bill L on January 4, 2000 at 17:13:43:
Don’t even consider the Sunfire, its an ill conceived piece of gear. The remote is a re-badged Rotel touch pad, that if you inadvertently program something on the AMP page you’ll have to return the remote and have it re-programmed. It has few digital inputs, it also has no analog pass through, everything is converted. The seven axis surround (Proceed and Lexicon matrix side info for 7.1) Sunfire just plays left/right front and sides at same volume (non-adjustable) the only way you can turn off the sides is turn off the amp driving them, even two channel stereo!!!!!!! DUMB. Anybody wanting Sunfire 7.1 just put Y-connector on your main left and right channels and mount up some sides.
Not familiar with Parasound but it has to be better than Sunfire, also check out the Classe’ SSP-25, its a great sounding and looking piece of gear (remote also sucks but at least you can’t erase it).
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- Re: Carver Sunfire vs Parasound AVC-2500 - Bob N. 14:21:46 01/05/00 (0)