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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: denti alligator on October 09, 2011, 11:36:04 AM

Title: Best route to 5.1 system with Bottlehead amps?
Post by: denti alligator on October 09, 2011, 11:36:04 AM

Subject line says it all.

6 Paramounts ?

How to adjust the volume?

What about using a Foreplay or two?

Title: Re: Best route to 5.1 system with Bottlehead amps?
Post by: xcortes on October 09, 2011, 12:50:16 PM

Only need five and a subwoofer. I have five hot rodded Paramours and pi 4 speakers.

Love them but use a commercial processor/preamp.

Title: Re: Best route to 5.1 system with Bottlehead amps?
Post by: Bodyslam on October 15, 2011, 05:07:23 AM

I have a couple of simple passive boxes built with DACT six channel attenuators for this purpose. They sound pretty good, better than just about any commercial unit I've been able to compare.

In my situations, they sound even better with buffer amps after the attenuators (so I can't really call them passives any more) but you might be able to get away without buffers if everything is located close together and you pick your impedances carefully. But it would be more fool-proof with buffers. Although I subscribe to the thinking that fewer stages are generally better than more stages, this is one area where the additional stage is often an improvement. The complexity starts to add up, but that's what happens when we dip into surround.