HT vs Stereo

[JohnnyR711]

I am currently running a fairly new pair of GoldenEar Triton Three floor standing speakers with 2 different receivers. For Home Theater I use the highly rated Denon AVR-X4000 with a Sony Blueray player and for 2-channel listening I am using an 85 watt per channel Harmon Kardon stereo receiver attached to my Rotel CD player and a Thorens TD-318 Turntable.

I currently just switch the receiver speaker wires depending on use at the time but was thinking about purchasing a Niles DSP-1 so that I do not have to switch any wires just throw the switch on the Niles unit. Don't know if this is the best solution OR should I just run every thing through the Denon AVR switching to 2 channel via remote and sell my HK receiver to upgrade my blue ray player to an Oppo unit and use the upgraded BlueRay player to play both DVDs and audio CDs.

Just looking for some input from members as to what would be the better choice sonically and financially - thanks to all responding members.

 

[Thompsonuxb]

Back to back is there an audible difference between the amps and your cdplayer and DVD player.

And do you have both amps in the same rack.

If you have a preference regards your sources then connect both to one of the amps.

Both amps will do dedicated stereo or you can turn off all unused channels.

If everything is in one room I personally see no need for the two amps or the faff of swapping speaker wire between amps or another box to swap between amps.

Unless one sounds notably better than the other for HT or stereo....reduce your box count and go with your second option.