Morning all
Uses: (better read as, "what I care about more")
Primarily
Stereo 70%
DSTV and BluRay 50%
Other things like Xbox exist, but I?m really not that fussed about the sound there, as long at Dolby D
System
Marantz SR5400
Cambridge Audio DAC Magic
AppleTV Gen 1
Paradigm Studio 40 V4 Cover Fronts
Rears are B&W 602 S2 (Spot the upgrade process?)
As you can probably see from my profile, I?m more of a ?lurker? than a contributor.
opcorn:
With that in mind, I?d like some opinions:
The Marantz SR5400 currently performing both AV and stereo duties. Due to circumstances outside of my control, having split AV and Stereo systems isn?t really an option.
http://marantz.co.uk/uk/Products/Pages/productdetails.aspx?catid=hometheatre&subcatid=avreceiver&productid=sr5400&status=discontinue
To be honest, I?ve loved this Marantz and it?s never put a foot wrong for me. However my new house has a Games/Entertainment room and I think it?s time to retire this amp and start building a secondary system in that room, using it.
My question after all this is:
If you had R10k (in 8 weeks or so) to start looking for a new receiver, how would you handle this?
R10k doesn?t really seem to allow me to upgrade to a new Marantz (5000 or 6000 series).
I want to make better use of HDMI, existing receiver doesn?t have any HDMI support and this complicates cabling somewhat
I want pre outs as an option
What second hand options (if any) would anyone recommend?
Additional zones would be cool
Thanks for any input :dop:
Uses: (better read as, "what I care about more")
Primarily
Stereo 70%
DSTV and BluRay 50%
Other things like Xbox exist, but I?m really not that fussed about the sound there, as long at Dolby D
System
Marantz SR5400
Cambridge Audio DAC Magic
AppleTV Gen 1
Paradigm Studio 40 V4 Cover Fronts
Rears are B&W 602 S2 (Spot the upgrade process?)
As you can probably see from my profile, I?m more of a ?lurker? than a contributor.
opcorn:With that in mind, I?d like some opinions:
The Marantz SR5400 currently performing both AV and stereo duties. Due to circumstances outside of my control, having split AV and Stereo systems isn?t really an option.
http://marantz.co.uk/uk/Products/Pages/productdetails.aspx?catid=hometheatre&subcatid=avreceiver&productid=sr5400&status=discontinue
To be honest, I?ve loved this Marantz and it?s never put a foot wrong for me. However my new house has a Games/Entertainment room and I think it?s time to retire this amp and start building a secondary system in that room, using it.
My question after all this is:
If you had R10k (in 8 weeks or so) to start looking for a new receiver, how would you handle this?
R10k doesn?t really seem to allow me to upgrade to a new Marantz (5000 or 6000 series).
I want to make better use of HDMI, existing receiver doesn?t have any HDMI support and this complicates cabling somewhat
I want pre outs as an option
What second hand options (if any) would anyone recommend?
Additional zones would be cool
Thanks for any input :dop:
