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Jaad

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  1. Hello all,

     

    My first post in the community. 

     

    I recently purchased an Anthem MRX1120 receiver.  The receiver powers 11 channels and 2 sub-woofers.

    This new receiver is upgrading my setup from a 5.2.2 to a 7.2.4

     

    The receiver can supply 140Watts to fronts, center, surround and subs with an A/B type amplifier while the back channel and elevation is 60Watts supplied by a D type amplifier.

     

    I am currently researching what speaker to buy that would match my receiver the best.  I am more precisely looking to purchase back channel speakers and Atmos elevated speakers; and it is a lot more complicated than I first thought.

     

    My current setup:

     

    RP-260F fronts

    RP-250C Center (but will be upgrading to RP-450C soon)

    RP-160M Surrounds

    R-110SW subs x 2

     

    I contacted Anthem to ask if I could use RP-160M as my back speakers and they said it wouldn't be a problem as long as I do not change cross-over setting that ARC had set them. 

    As far as Atmos is considered I was thinking of getting 2 pairs of RP-140SA that I would mount high on the wall.  ( I don't believe in putting them on top of floor speakers and bouncing them off the ceiling theory myself.)

     

    What I have problem to reconcile is this:

     

    the RP-160M are 100Watts with 400Watts peak

    the RP-140SA are 50 watts at 200Watts peak

     

    I'm worried that I am going to ask too much of the little 60 watts amp on the receiver by putting the RP-160M as back.  I have considered putting another pair of RP140SA as back mounted mid- wall.  the thing is I really like having great sound.  I love the current speaker I have but I never heard the RP-140SA yet -  if my instinct is correct I have a feeling that they won't cut it for me just like my RP-250C is not cutting for me right now.

     

    I have never owned a 7.x.x home theater before so I don't know how much signal is sent to back channel yet.  My guess is probably the same as elevation channel and reason why Anthem went with a smaller D type amp for the back and height channel. 

     

    I also listen to music and having the ability to run all channels might tempt me at some point.  I also have a girlfriend that loves to crank the system from time to time.  I worry that she won't hear the clipping that might happen with the back and height.  I could in just remove them from the equation while playing music by crating another listening configuration file just for music(I can create 4 different profiles total)

     

    So what do you guys and gals think?  I want to stick with the RP series  I just don't know what will work best?  any suggestions?

     

    Cheers

     

     

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