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Does anyone have the new VAC Phi 300 amplifier?
Fplanner,What do you mean "wrong thread"?. Look at my and Sherod's posts above 
How to get 2 Channel and Home theater in one packa
Kal,Do you ever feel that running built-in decoder in DVD player into analog preamp (that's exactly what I'm doing with McIntosh C-45), is inferior to using dedicated processor into preamp? 
Does anyone have the new VAC Phi 300 amplifier?
Sherod,I didn't get out of the home theater, but I replaced Theta Dreadnaught II with BAT- 75SE for front channels and Butler 5150 for the rest.Now I'm thinking about changing my analog multichannel preamp (McIntosh C-45) with a quality two-channe... 
Audiophile multi-channel amp?
Butler 5150 
Does anyone have the new VAC Phi 300 amplifier?
Sherod,Thanks for your review. I was considering Auricle Musicblocks among others for myself, but ended up with BAT-75SE.Regards 
Does anyone have the new VAC Phi 300 amplifier?
Sherod,Can you share your impressions of VAC Auricle Musicblocs? 
New Beatles Box Sets
I don't have the second edition, but the first bunch of Capitol is terrible. I can't sit through one CD at a time, more like 5-10 minutes at the most. Extremely bright, forward, shouty and metallic sounding. A complete waste of money. I would not ... 
HD Sattelite Reciever and analog preamp
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I have MvIntosh C-45 Multichannel preamp with two sets of multichannel inputs. One I'm using for DVD/SACD/DVD-Audio and will use the second set with HD satellite reciever. 
HD Sattelite Reciever and analog preamp
Thanks,I forgot to mention: I want a very inexpensive solution, since all I actually need is DolbyDigital and DTS decoding of HD sattelite sound. Regards. 
Multi channel preamps
Jeffreybehr, What TAS issue are you referring to?I'm interested in that preamp myself, and I talked briefly with Mr.Johnson at CES about it, but it wasn't playing at the time.BTW, I have McIntosh C-45 in my system. 
McIntosh C45 question
McIntosh does not have a HT pass through, but you can use tape loop input to do the same, only thing you'll need to do is to keep C-45 volume control in predetermined position and to use Rotel's to adjust your volume when watching movies.But here ... 
What spikes for VR-4Jr's ?
I'm using mapleshade carpet piercing cones ( 3 per/apeaker) 
Rowland "house sound"?
Thanks for the response. Do you think BAT VK-55 will present the same problem? I spoke with Victor Khomenko at this year CES regarding this exact issue, and he mentioned that VK-55 measures close to 80 Wt. on the bench and actually is more powerfu... 
Rowland "house sound"?
Fishwater,Funny you should say that- planning to sell BAT in favor of some SS amp.I have the same speakers and just recently sold Theta Digital Dreadnaught II, thinking of BAT as one of the options to replace it.Could you please share, what is it ... 
Do I want a sub with VR-4jr's?
Robm321 "It will cost you a lot to hear the last 5Hz in the audible range"VR-4jr specs claim output at 28Hz, you'd be surprized to see the actual freq. response curve of the main speakers as measured by Velodyne's microphone. It's far from the cla...