AVR 320 and ext. amp ? (1 Viewer)

[Eric Wood]

Could I use an external amp to power the front three speakers and still use the 5 internal amps to power the rest of the 7.1 configuration? I should arguably have an extra amp just withering away.

Thanks,

Eric

 

[Eujin]

Nope. You can only use the external amp to power the back surrounds (extra 2 of the 7.1). If you use an external amp to power the front speakers, you'll still need another amp to do the extra speakers for full 7.1. But I have to ask why you'd want to do full 7.1 because the 320 doesn't do THX EX. The 7.1 processing only applies to Logic7, as far as I'm aware.

 

[JohnnyG]

Eric, you could with the 520 as it has pre-out/main-in loops. Just decouple and re-connect as you want.