Are these things really that bad? Anyone here actually willing to admit having ever owned/used one?
I'm just wanting to amp an old 2 channel setup in my office and do a little powered AV swtiching. I'm not intending to use any of the receiver's processing, and I'm not doing anything fancy with it. I'm currently using the sub off a Creative Inspire 4.1 system to amp my big old Fisher speaks, and I believe this is proving woefully inadequate. The detail is there, but only if I go stand with my head just a couple feet away from the speaks. If I turn up the volume enough to actually hear the detail from my normal seat, its simply too loud, making it hard to catch the detail again, plus adding quite a bit of audible hiss to the output.
I can pick up a closeout KLH receiver with Svideo swtiching for about $100 locally right now. I could really use the powered svideo switching, and would like to improve the sound of that set up, even if its just marginal. $100 is really on the outside of the range of stuff I could just spend frivolously like this just at the moment, so will this help, or do cheap KLH receivers just sound so bad as to be worthless?
Thanks for any input.
Kensai
I'm just wanting to amp an old 2 channel setup in my office and do a little powered AV swtiching. I'm not intending to use any of the receiver's processing, and I'm not doing anything fancy with it. I'm currently using the sub off a Creative Inspire 4.1 system to amp my big old Fisher speaks, and I believe this is proving woefully inadequate. The detail is there, but only if I go stand with my head just a couple feet away from the speaks. If I turn up the volume enough to actually hear the detail from my normal seat, its simply too loud, making it hard to catch the detail again, plus adding quite a bit of audible hiss to the output.
I can pick up a closeout KLH receiver with Svideo swtiching for about $100 locally right now. I could really use the powered svideo switching, and would like to improve the sound of that set up, even if its just marginal. $100 is really on the outside of the range of stuff I could just spend frivolously like this just at the moment, so will this help, or do cheap KLH receivers just sound so bad as to be worthless?
Thanks for any input.
Kensai