DwayneHoward
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Over 20 year ago, when I was in college, I bought a Kenwood KR-V8040 Pro-Logic receiver and a pair of DCM TimeFrame 600's. Music and movies was how I entertained myself between work and school
Yesterday, I bought a Yamaha RX-A8030. And I'm asking myself why? I'm blown away by how dead this receiver is ! Need to figure out what happened so I can replace it with something worth having.
With the 20-year-old KW, I could select Bypass to get away from any form of DSP. I had A speakers, B speakers, and A&B speakers to choose from. I had a simple "Loudness" dial that helped bring punch to the sound, even at low volume levels. Combined with my Onkyo EQ, I could dial it in to really excellent sound. When I added 2 powered subwoofers, I had killer sound, but couldn't go past 25% volume because of the reduction in impedence causing overload.
With this new $800 amp, I actually have Subwoofer outputs, but no sub power compared to bridging them to the old system. I had to rig my EQ to work with this POS. I have no simple control or anything else to bring the sound to life. I had to select some "Analog" DSP setting to get anything close to sounding like music. Supposedly, I have nearly 800 watts of power to drive the TM's, subs, and the Klipsch rear speakers I added. Lamo ! WTF is this ? I can't get the punch, but have distortion I've never had before.
All I need is great sounding music and decent sounding surround for movies, and couldn't care less about all the other crap. Anyone know of an amp worth having, or should I find more creative ways to make use of my old Kenwood ?
Yesterday, I bought a Yamaha RX-A8030. And I'm asking myself why? I'm blown away by how dead this receiver is ! Need to figure out what happened so I can replace it with something worth having.
With the 20-year-old KW, I could select Bypass to get away from any form of DSP. I had A speakers, B speakers, and A&B speakers to choose from. I had a simple "Loudness" dial that helped bring punch to the sound, even at low volume levels. Combined with my Onkyo EQ, I could dial it in to really excellent sound. When I added 2 powered subwoofers, I had killer sound, but couldn't go past 25% volume because of the reduction in impedence causing overload.
With this new $800 amp, I actually have Subwoofer outputs, but no sub power compared to bridging them to the old system. I had to rig my EQ to work with this POS. I have no simple control or anything else to bring the sound to life. I had to select some "Analog" DSP setting to get anything close to sounding like music. Supposedly, I have nearly 800 watts of power to drive the TM's, subs, and the Klipsch rear speakers I added. Lamo ! WTF is this ? I can't get the punch, but have distortion I've never had before.
All I need is great sounding music and decent sounding surround for movies, and couldn't care less about all the other crap. Anyone know of an amp worth having, or should I find more creative ways to make use of my old Kenwood ?