rjohn79395
Posted
4 years 4 months ago
Hi, Chris
Can you clarify something for us? When you go through the Marantz AVR, are you still using the external amps, or the AVR's internal amps?
I have a Marantz AVR, the SR 7010, and it's amps power the four height speakers only. The fronts, center and surrounds are powered by an ATi amp. And the bass, whether listening to 2.0 stereo or nine channel surround is superb.
I do agree that some receivers can roll off bass even in 2.0, not just when sending LFE to large fronts, no sub on, for whatever reason. My original, way back pre T1, T Ref etc. set up was a NAD T757 AVR and had the then newly introduced T2's as fronts. Bass was disappointing in 2.0 and so-so in surround. When I added a NAD stereo amp, added LFE connections and switched to using the NAD AVR's front pre-outs, bass got better all around. Apparently the NAD was more willing to send full bass via the pre-outs than via it's own amps.
Rick
5.4.4 HT speakers: T Ref fronts/LFE 1, SuperCenter Ref, T1 surrounds/LFE 2 + SuperSub XXL, HTR 7000 top fronts, HTR 8000 top rears
Zone 2 speakers; 2 Invisa 525's
AVR: Marantz SR 8015
Amp: AT525NC 5 channel
Cable/TiVo, OPPO BDP 105D, Bluesound Node 2i, Apple tv 4K streamer
48" SONY 4K OLED TV
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