Amplifier recommendations

platypus · 21 Dec 2016 at 08:46

I'm after an amplifier that would happily drive two sets of Q acoustic 3050 floorstanders, and two sets of 3020 bookshelf speakers. I'm currently using a beautiful little hardman kardon but it won't output to 8 speakers. Is 8 a little ambitious? Or am I better off looking at one of these speaker selector system things? Not sure what they do to the sound though.

Ta.

platypus · 23 Dec 2016 at 13:50

james.miller said:
We need to know what your trying to achieve, platypus.

Sorry I should have been more helpful in my op.

I want to achieve a system playing music throughout the house. Which I suppose I could go the route of Sonos, but I don't really want too.

FurryLemon said:
I'm assuming you'll be having two QA 3xxx series setup's in two different rooms. For this you need an AVR with a second HDMI out and 8+ channels.

Doh, read all the posts before replying. Yes exactly this.

platypus · 27 Dec 2016 at 16:12

@Furry - yes, only music. And at that classical is the priority, and vinyl important (if that makes a difference).

@tom, as above no video requirements, flexible volume would be good but its not vital, controlling it via wifi would be nice also but again not vital as I already have a wifi-centrally control setup (via kodi). Surround sound is not needed at all. Same input to the system, and output to all speakers. We will have a central point that everything goes too once our extension is built (eta on that 6-12 months!).