AV Speaker advice

pinkaardvark · 16 Jun 2006 at 11:20

I ventured into the world of grown up AV at xmas when I purchased a Denon 1906 and Kef 1005 package. Although it sounds great for movies it's quite lacking playing music. I know that ideally i'd be better with a stereo amp and proper floorstanders but I was wondering if there was a compromise, ie if I could just upgrade the front left and right speaker and use bigger speakers for these when playing stereo.

Any ideas or should I really just invest in a good little stereo amp. If I do get a stereo amp I assume I can just pass thru the 1906 to the amp. The only problem I foresee with this is that I'd then have two sets of speakers in the same location and this would be a bit cluttered, unless theres a way of using 2 new speakers and amp in combination with the 1906 for music and surround.

pinkaardvark · 16 Jun 2006 at 11:44

Thanks guys. Yes i'm fairly sure it has pre-outs.. it has everything else lol. The front speakers I would remove and use them as 7.1 speakers, then they don't get wasted.

pinkaardvark · 16 Jun 2006 at 12:54

Almost. So if I use the preouts will I still be able to turn up the volume on AV amp when using it as 7.1 and have the new speakers increase in volume. (The new amp would have course be turned on)

Purely thinking of this from an ease of use perspective with regards to remote control. Missus finds it hard enough to turn on AV amp when wanting to watch telly at the moment. I do have a Harmony remote so can turn multiple devices on with one button but do need to spend some time programming it up.

pinkaardvark · 16 Jun 2006 at 13:33

Well currently have no CD player. In the living room I just have a PC that outputs to amp via coax. I could output to the new amp via rca though. So if I could get an amp where it has two inputs that can have differing sound levels set that may do the job. I guess I should just try a new set of speakers with my AV amp first though as it has a stereo mode and it's the small size of the Kef1005 egg speakers that are letting the music down I think rather than the amp at this moment in time. I do appreciate to the trained ear the stereo amp solution would be far better but i'm not sure i'd get the benefit.. mayeb speakers first and then new amp if it doesn't suffice.