Thanks Venkat again,
I am at the verge of deciding in favour of 863.
But I will trouble you once again to sort out a situation. This is about speakers I am having and I will have to buy in near future at pair with AVR. You see, my wife is very skeptical about numbers of speakers (no grudge...it is she who do all the packing during transfers..).
Right now I am having a pair of florstanders (paired with my BPL stereo having 2x8" driver each) a pair of WH 9.1 and a pair of old bookshelves of single driver 'Murphy' brand (Last remains of father's turn-table based music system which I enjoyed during my childhood,but sonically ok but not that good).
During my audition, I keenly observed the SQ of marantz amp,paired with WH9.5. In lay man's term I would rate SQ of my BPL system at 80% that of marantz & WH combo. This helped me to decide for continuing with my present stereo setup for the time being and add an AVR.
Now with AVR I need to add/buy a center channel speaker as it is must. But I am also toying the idea of not buying a active sub and using my stereo set as sub during movie play (by connecting .2 of 863 with stereo amp and floorstaders as passive sub.) and remaining four as front & rear. This way I feel I will be able to use my integrated BPL amp as stand alone system for music. Is this approach ok????? I hope it work to some extent OR it will be no match to a dedicated plate amplified active sub?
thanks & regard..
I am at the verge of deciding in favour of 863.
But I will trouble you once again to sort out a situation. This is about speakers I am having and I will have to buy in near future at pair with AVR. You see, my wife is very skeptical about numbers of speakers (no grudge...it is she who do all the packing during transfers..).
Right now I am having a pair of florstanders (paired with my BPL stereo having 2x8" driver each) a pair of WH 9.1 and a pair of old bookshelves of single driver 'Murphy' brand (Last remains of father's turn-table based music system which I enjoyed during my childhood,but sonically ok but not that good).
During my audition, I keenly observed the SQ of marantz amp,paired with WH9.5. In lay man's term I would rate SQ of my BPL system at 80% that of marantz & WH combo. This helped me to decide for continuing with my present stereo setup for the time being and add an AVR.
Now with AVR I need to add/buy a center channel speaker as it is must. But I am also toying the idea of not buying a active sub and using my stereo set as sub during movie play (by connecting .2 of 863 with stereo amp and floorstaders as passive sub.) and remaining four as front & rear. This way I feel I will be able to use my integrated BPL amp as stand alone system for music. Is this approach ok????? I hope it work to some extent OR it will be no match to a dedicated plate amplified active sub?
thanks & regard..