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Re: two Channel Music and Home theater Integrated or seperated?
In my experience, the speakers themselves have far more to do with how well a system reproduces music than the receiver does.
My old two channel Pioneer system sounded a lot better when I upgraded my speakers. My solution when I got my first Dolby Pro Logic surround sound system was to add an inexpensive packed of 5 tiimbre-matched speakers plus a sub for movies, while keeping my old floor-standing JBLs as "B" speakers for music only. (Frankly it never occured to me to keep the stereo receiver as well, not sure why.)
I kept this arrangement after upgrading again to my first digital surround receiver, a Kenwood model. Music never sounded as good through my HT speakers, but the JBLs continued to work very well with the Kenwood.
Finally I upgraded my HT with a 6 speaker package from Atlantic Technoloy. As I had when I upgrading in the past, I did an A/B comparison of the front left and right speakers, plus the sub, vs. my old JBL war-horses with no sub on a variety of music. For the first time ever my HT speakers blew the big JBLs away when playing stereo material. I gave the JBLs away and am still using that same set of Atlantic Tech speakers for both music and movies, three residences and two receivers later. (Currently using an Onkyo SR-503.) Those speaker still sound better than any other audio system I've ever owned on 2-channel music - and they kick ass on movies.
YMMV.
Regards,
Joe
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