using avr as pre

[leftwinger57]

Hi guys, When I got my Yamaha rx-v665 it had all the ins/outs that I thought would be enough,boy was I wrong. Firstly they have these lame effects to try to duplicate certain sound fields eg:hall in Vienna -club setting --chamber hall this is all various forms of echo and reverb and a waste of time.Next they said it had pre/out so you can h/u a seperate pwr amp,this turned out not to be and I needed a seperate preamp.Now at 90 w/c I thought it could push a movie albeit on the loud side but it clipped when a certain frequency was hit. My box set of Klipsch500s can handle what this amp can putout.I decided to go to 2-ch and tried to use the yammie as the pre and almost blew the Infinitys to scrap. To say I was diappointed is an understatement but it did work out in the end.Now my H/T is totally sepeate from my 2-ch and w/ an indy pre ,it's the way to go.One another thing the Yamaha could not do for me was to utilize HDMI cords to the fullest. When I first h/u I used HDMI cords and found out that I could not watch a silent tv (ballgame) and have tunes at the same time. The only solution was to use an optical cord for audio. Here's the way I have it setup now. HDMI from cable box into tv, HDMI from tv to avr to use on screen adjustmemts, then an optical out of cable box to avr,HDMI from avr to Denon cdp and YDD-11 dock direct into avr. If anyone has any corrective comments they would be greatly accepted.Also I never use my tv speakers EVER.

[peshewah]

The RX V663 has pre-outs and I have a amp hooked up to it . A person would think that a 665 would offer pre-outs knowing that it is the updated version of the 663,