londonscottish
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Hi all, I'm currently using an old receiver (a Yamaha RXV 673) to play music (and only music) in 2.1 mode. No other reason that it's was left over from an install that I've replaced. Most of the time its streaming extreme quality Spotify via the optical input.
The speakers are Monitor Audio Gold bookshelf speakers and a Tannoy HTS sub. Again, the sub is a leftover and something of an afterthought.
I was in Richer Sounds the other day buying some stuff and I idly asked them if it would be worth replacing the receiver with a proper dedicated audio amp that ran 2.1.
The fella suggested sticking with the amp but upgrading the sub instead with one that ran a high level connection - he pointed me at an ex-demo REL 7.1 as an example
I've read the excellent guide on here on high level connection vs LFE/phono and get the concept but I have two questions;
Q1 - do you think upgrading to a £4-500 sub running a high level connection is likely to make a significant difference to the audio quality over the set up I have today?
Q2 - when wiring one, do I just add the wiring to one pair of the existing posts I'm already using for one of the Monitor Audios/
The speakers are Monitor Audio Gold bookshelf speakers and a Tannoy HTS sub. Again, the sub is a leftover and something of an afterthought.
I was in Richer Sounds the other day buying some stuff and I idly asked them if it would be worth replacing the receiver with a proper dedicated audio amp that ran 2.1.
The fella suggested sticking with the amp but upgrading the sub instead with one that ran a high level connection - he pointed me at an ex-demo REL 7.1 as an example
I've read the excellent guide on here on high level connection vs LFE/phono and get the concept but I have two questions;
Q1 - do you think upgrading to a £4-500 sub running a high level connection is likely to make a significant difference to the audio quality over the set up I have today?
Q2 - when wiring one, do I just add the wiring to one pair of the existing posts I'm already using for one of the Monitor Audios/