Will this combo be ok?

[Beyond Salvation]

 

So, have just bought a pair of Monitor Audio GX300 floorstanders. Am going to make these the front set & put B&W CM9's as rears. Have a Monitor Audio gold signature centre & an older 10" B&W sub.

Amp is just a Yammy RX-V1073

though I have a spare NAD C355BEE & if i can work out how, am thinking of using it to drive the M.A. fronts (bi-amping)

Do you think this will sound good?

Cheers, Johnno

 

[wen]

Connect it all up and see how it sounds to "you". Everyone has a different idea of what sound right to them. Room , music, cables, many factors which will affect the end result.

[Beyond Salvation]

I guess that's it, plug & play eh.

I better check out carefully how to bi-amp.

[Beyond Salvation]

Ok, so am finding the Monitor Audio GX300 too bright so want to use the front pre outs on the Yamaha RX-V1073 to go to a NAD pre amp C 165BEE (so i can back the treble down) then to a power amp. 

Is there any issue doing this?

[Kirby66]

Hey Johnno, you might get more HT / Multi Channel advice if you were to repost this in the HT forum ... can't help myself - two speakers at a time in my place 

 

https://www.stereonet.com/forums/forum/17-home-cinema-general-discussion/

[Cafad]

How did you manage the bi-amping?

 

I would think you would have been better off using the NAD C355 on the fronts and running pre-outs from the Yammy AVR into an input on the NAD.  So not bi-amping at all.  Then you could just swap inputs on the NAD when going from music to movies (I'm assuming you have different sources for movies and music).

[Beyond Salvation]

9 hours ago, Kirby66 said:

Hey Johnno, you might get more HT / Multi Channel advice if you were to repost this in the HT forum ... can't help myself - two speakers at a time in my place 

 

https://www.stereonet.com/forums/forum/17-home-cinema-general-discussion/

Thx, will see how i go. So far so good

[Beyond Salvation]

8 hours ago, Cafad said:

How did you manage the bi-amping?

 

I would think you would have been better off using the NAD C355 on the fronts and running pre-outs from the Yammy AVR into an input on the NAD.  So not bi-amping at all.  Then you could just swap inputs on the NAD when going from music to movies (I'm assuming you have different sources for movies and music).

I think you're right.

I did try the Yammy to NAD pre then nto an old Kenwood Basic M2 power amp as it has a heap of grunt but the path will be less & the C355 should be better sq than the Kenwood (though it's not too bad)

I play a lot of stereo & surround music discs, the occasional lp but not so many movies.

Cheers

[Beyond Salvation]

I meant to say doing the pre amp etc certainly fixed the brightness issue. Hopefully the C355 by itself will do the same.

[Beyond Salvation]

So, ended up using the bi-amp function on the Yammy amp for the MA GX300's. (I had gotten it recently & forgotten it had this function.)

So, not as high end as most of you but sounds pretty damn good to my ears.

System is;

Yamaha RX-V1073 receiver

Fronts: Monitor Audio GX300 (bi-amped)

Centre: MA Gold Sig.

Rears: B&W CM9

Sub: MA Bronze

 

Players

Sony UBP X800

Oppo BDP103

Pioneer 676A

 

Now must resist cranking all the time - think I have damaged my ears already!

Will use NAD elsewhere.

Thanks for your comments

J