Jeff Matthews Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 For those of you running a Heritage HT, what type of receiver/amp are you driving it with and how do you like it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkot Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 jeff, i use NAD, i have a big pile of bridged amps one for each channel huge power, great dynamics!(rated at over 4 db of headroom) three 2600's/four 2400's all but my first one found at the pawnshop/ebay see my profile jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.4knee Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Yamaha RX V3300. It does a great job for a receiver. If I had my druther's I'd rather have a set of Mac separates or a mixed Mac/Halo rig. But for less than 1/10 the price it does quite nicely. I just bought Dylanl's Scott 299B to set up to use my LS mains and TT in a two channel rig as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCOOTERDOG Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Denon AVR 3801 handels all the digital functions and powers the center and surrounds while an Onkyo M504 165w dual mono block amp drives the mains...sweet I love the onkyo it has been a true workhorse, is clean, quite, and tons of headroom for those dynamics and transients I love. scooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boa12 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 jeff, well I have a somewhat Heritage HT: front Cornwalls, center KLF-C7, surround KLF-30, rear surround KLF-C7 (one for now but I hope to find another black one for 7.1). will use B&K Reference 31(upgraded) & my "old" B&K Ref amp 7x200. I say will because I moved recently & have yet to get it all set-up. [:|] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boa12 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 btw, if I had even more room & $$$, this is the dream: Front: Klipschorns Center: Belle (or LaScala) Surround: Cornwalls Rear Surround: Heresy x2, mounted high on back wall (30 degrees off center axis each). we can all dream. LOL I'd keep the B&K. high current, smooth mosfet for Klipsch, & excellent, flexible bass mgmt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kktvbob Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 My first home theater in the mid 80s I ran my corns as mains and herseys on the rear. I use to Carver C4000 pre pro it was a 5 channel stereo pre plus Carver M500t amps. The pre is a stereo amp with a center and rears that were delays. This was pre Dolby Prologic days plus I didn't use a center till I bought a Academy. This was a very good sounding system in it's day but it still sounds better than my Denon AVR 2803. I then replaced the Carver C4000 with a Denon AVP8000 pre amp and ran the Carver amps. This was a very good sounding system. But the DTS stop working and that was fine for some time till the up grade bug hit and I wanted to 6.1 or 7.1. So I made the big mistake of selling the Denon pre pro. I bought a Denon AVR 2803 to use as a pre till I up graded to a new pre pro. I needed to save up for that. The 2803 with the Carver amps sounds ok but not like the AVP 8000. I should have waited to sell it but I wanted the other channels. With this set up I sold my Academy and bought a pair of vert. Corns. One for center front and center rear. Now this was a good upgrade. Now a few mouths ago I bought a Sunfire Signature 400 x 7 power amps plus I'm still running the Denon AVR2803 as a pre. This amp did make the system sound better. I did try B & K and this also sounded better than the Carver amps, but the price was right on the Sunfire. Don't think the Carver is a bad sounding amp since I test drove over 15 amps and it was the best sounding amp with Corns at the time. Those Carver amps sound better than most receivers today and some of the new power amps out today at least with Cornwall's. My son now have my Carver amps for his RF 7's. I will replace the Denon 2803 with Sunfire Theater Grand when they update it with Dolby Digital Plus and hopefully HDMI. I don't want to spend that amount of coin and upgrade a year latter. It's hard to wait though because the Theater Grand IV makes the system just magical. Sorry to be long winded but this was a 22 year ride with my heritage HT. Just watch out because some amps just sound bad with heritage line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr-dezibel Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Denon 3805 drives my 5 Heresies. Sounds good and power is more than sufficient for my listening levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 Denon AVR 3801 handels all the digital functions and powers the center and surrounds while an Onkyo M504 165w dual mono block amp drives the mains...sweet I love the onkyo it has been a true workhorse, is clean, quite, and tons of headroom for those dynamics and transients I love. scooter How do you do that? You drive the center and surrounds with one receiver and the mains with an amp. So, when you put in a DVD, how does it process the sound in the right format? In other words, I don't get the connections. Anyone feel free to answer because I know this is common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcarlton Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 A Denon AVR-3200 with a Rotel RB-980BX for the mains. Running K-horns in the front with Heresy's in the rear. Looking and waiting to upgrade after the HD-DVD and Blu-ray players hit the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Most all good avrs have pre outs/ins.You just run a pre out to your amp and it gets the same signal as if you hooked it to the avr speaker terminal.You hook the speakers to the amp,calibrate and rock on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 Most all good avrs have pre outs/ins.You just run a pre out to your amp and it gets the same signal as if you hooked it to the avr speaker terminal.You hook the speakers to the amp,calibrate and rock on. Interesting, but how does it know which signal to send to the amp - fronts, sub, surround? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 You just run all your sources into the avr,hook any preouts you want to an ext amp/s(the avr amps run any speakers hooked to its binding post).The processing is done in the avr(excluding dvda/sacd which is done in the player and sent to volume knob on avr)then sent to all speaker outputs/preouts.Look closely at the back of a newer avr,its the same principle as any pre amp.Any preout marked l/r/c/rr/lr will send that signal to your 1/2/3/5/6/7 channel amp/s,viola surround. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meagain Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 We were just talking about this. I like the concept and we can do this with our HK AVR. Cool! Whatcha going to buy Jeff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Robinson Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Most all good avrs have pre outs/ins.You just run a pre out to your amp and it gets the same signal as if you hooked it to the avr speaker terminal.You hook the speakers to the amp,calibrate and rock on. Interesting, but how does it know which signal to send to the amp - fronts, sub, surround? The pre-outs are user defined in the OSD menu. It's easy to do. I have a Denon AVR4800 which I've run with tube amps driving the front Cornwalls and rear surrounds. Presently, my home Heritage theater is in storage. When we moved to SC from the Boston area this summer, there wasn't enough room in this family room for all the gear. The Klipschorns are resting in the "Carolina room" (i.e., your normal sunroom) and the Cornwalls are up in the "Man Cave" pulling duty on the 2A3 SET/Ah Njoe Tjoeb 2-channel setup. I bought a Sunfire 200x7 amp over Christmas. It was factory-fresh B stock and I got it for a very good price, I think. I was interested in the comments above about the Denon/Sunfire combination so I'm hopeful that it's a good combo. After we redo the family room (and adjoining kitchen) this spring, we'll have the room for Klipschorns up front, the Belle in the center, Cornwalls for the surrounds, and maybe KPT-1201's for rear surrounds. I'm still debating the sub arrangement, but I like the RT-12D for its size and flexibility. In my previous HT setup in Boston, I had the vertical Cornwalls up front with the Belle in the center, and Heresies for rears (5.1 setup). I was very pleased with the setup but this next room up should be a major step up. In my humble opinion, there is nothing more special to me than listening to 40 year old classic speakers reproducing beautifully recorded music -- and in the case of HT -- today's movies that the family seems to be watching all the time. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-malotky Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I run mono McIntosh MC 250's to the Fronts, sides and center, then a Stereo MC 2150 for my rears. The MC250 running in Mono is my favorite SS Heritage Amp. JM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomer9911 Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I'm running a Marantz Reference SR18EX with 3 Marantz MA700 mono blocks for the front - Khorns(93) and KLF-C7(00). The rears are Hersey II's(01) and a pair of LaScala's(00 boxed\stored) with a Velodyne FSR-18 subwoofer.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumpelstiltskin Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I'm using a Denon AVR3802 receiver with a Mac MC2205 amp driving the mains. All five speakers are Cornwalls from 1978. I also have two big, powered subwoofers. The sound is simply amazing, especially in the surround modes. Rick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Meagain, I have no idea what I'll buy. No big hurry. It seems to be that the Denons are pretty popular as well as the HKs. Since you have KHorns and KG4s(?), why don't you run HT with your HK and tell me what you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meagain Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Well, we set up 5:1 and it was very cool, but need to ramp up the quality of the surrounds. Will likely hook up the kg4s for the football game tomorrow. I'm looking for more speakers to go with the khorns. We have a Rogers BBC (little tiny thing) we used as a center. I don't really understand the center thing and how people are able to listen to music with 3 speakers. You would use your cornwalls and what else? What for a center? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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