Finally....music and movies again

pmckeealaska
pmckeealaska Posts: 808
edited February 2007 in Electronics
Well, any of you who remember my saga with my system (bad subwoofer on my left channel LSi25, coke having been mysteriously poured into my NAD reciever with bad soldering), might be pleased to hear that I finally got my reciever back from the repair shop and I hooked everything up and it appears to be working like a charm. I had left for a month vacation in Thailand in January and told the shop to hold it until the week of my return. It arrived 6 days after I got back. I still have to get all the channels leveled out, but man I forgot how glorious my LSi25's are! Almost brought me to tears.

I must say, the only folks who really stepped up to the plate on this whole matter were the people at NAD. The shop that sold me the reciever in Seattle were no help at all and never got back to me on any requests that I made. The repair shop, while they did their work well enough, were slow and, according to NAD, very overpriced. But NAD stepped up to the plate and did everything they could to make sure I was happy. A great comoany indeed!

These problems have made me think about possibly getting away from the whole reciever thing. I dont know a lot about the area of stereos and HT, even though I have tried to educate myself over the course of building up my system. So I'm asking for some helpful suggestions. Do I have to have a reciever to have HT? Does anyone make a "surround preamp" or something like it? I'm willing to get a 3 channel amp or a powerful five channel to run all of my speakers if I can avoid having to use a reciever again. Anyone have any suggestions?
Music and Movie Rig

Samsung 40" HDTV 1080p
LSi25 Front Speakers
LSiC Center Channel
LSiFX Surrounds
Rotel RB 1080 2-Channel Amp
NAD T763 Reciever
Denon DVD 2900 Universal Player
Audiosource 10 Band Digital Equalizer
Audioquest CV-8 speaker cables
Audioquest Sub-X subwoofer cables
Audioquest King Cobra Interconnects
Monster AVS 2000 Voltage Stabilizer
Playstation 3 120GB Slim
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited February 2007
    Outlaw Audio, Rotel, Sunfire, NAD, Adcom, All these companies make separate prepros! Combine it with one of their 5-7 channel amps & you are cooking with gas.
    Marantz AV-7705 PrePro, Classé 5 channel 200wpc Amp, Oppo 103 BluRay, Rotel RCD-1072 CDP, Sony XBR-49X800E TV, Polk S60 Main Speakers, Polk ES30 Center Channel, Polk S15 Surround Speakers SVS SB12-NSD x2
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  • maingey
    maingey Posts: 632
    edited February 2007
    That's quite a saga, nice to see you getting back into your rig.

    Yes, many companies make what are called Preamp/Processors, or Pre/Pros.
    Its a multichannel preamp that you would input your digital & analog sources to, then push out a preamped signals for each channel via analog interconnects to an external amplifier. Depending on the pre/pro and source material, you may require a 5,7, even ten channel amp.

    Many believe you get better quality audio with seperates (pre/pro & amp) than with an intergrated receiver, but depending on what level you look to spend or do a receiver may be all you really need.

    Rotel, Classe, Anthem, Sim Audio etc. have products. I'm sure there are others, I just was giving you the short of the answer.

    Hope I was helpful
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