Yeah, I thought that's what he was asking. Guess I missed the question.
The amps I'm using for LF/RF are actually rated at less that the rated per channel value of the onboard amps of the AVR. I did it that way not so much for "high quality" of the LF/RF signals, but so I could run the same speakers as LF/RF on the surround and 2 channel music without having to swap any wires. It's a lot easier to let the 2 ch preamp do the swapping and for watching TV in stereo mode I don't even have to mess with the AVR remote. Not sure any of it's "high quality", but it's sure handy.As for opinions... I don't think gobs of watts are all that important. AVR's amps are generally pretty poor sounding and using an outboard amp will help, but I think the line level and DAC circuits are where most of the grain and general ick comes from.
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