Hie Knusse, Jeg er ogsa i Norge, og ARCAM er ikke billig, the CD36 goes for Kr 19K, that's around 1640GBP!!!! And the P7 is a truely obscene Kr 40K... that's 3500GBP... I think there's a bit of price fixing going on and ARCAM importers are rippping us off!!!
Anyway, I've got an AVR300 with a P90/3 driving B&W804 fronts, B&W HTM3S centre, and B&W 603S2 rears. All big speakers with a minimum impedance of around 3 ohms. See
http://avforum.no/minhjemmekino/memberlist.php?c=0&s=colinjohnson&order=vurdering. I have bi-amp'd the fronts and centre using the AVR300 to drive the hf and the P90 to drive the lf. Since doing this I have noticed a lack of 'thud' in the low end and am still experimenting to find the best combination. I'm tending towards removing the P90/3 altogther as I don't think it's adding to the sound, partly because ( I think ) the line level outputs from the AVR300 have a limited bandwidth and are loosing detail in both the hf and lf.
I hear someone saying 'it's your cables'.. now I'm not a believer in high tech cables and I know what works and I know when I'm being sold snake oil. I'm using solid cored air spaced RG6 and you don't get much better than that.
I also have a McIntosh MC2500 that I have connected to the line level outputs of the AVR300 and it sounds bad. If I connect my CD36 directly to the Mac then it sounds pretty cool...
.. so I suspect there's a problem with the AVR300 pre-amp or line level outputs... But having said all that... the best combination I have found so far ( again.. I think ) is with the CD36 connected to the AVR300 and reverting to using channels 6+7 to bi-amp the 804 fronts.
So, do I sell my P90/3 or not????