Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo M22's Sub, Receiver, Future Proof? (Long)

Larry, a few more comments would be that rather than being a weak link, your Onkyo receiver is the strongest link next to your M22s. There's no magic in a "dedicated" two-channel unit and two channels of a a multi-channel receiver are just as audibly clean. Furthermore, there's no good reason to be "wasting" the extra amp channels; as was said, assuming that the speakers are available, two-channel music material can be played with a little more realism when the ambience naturally present(to varying degrees)in two-channel material is extracted from the front channels by processing such as DPLII and sent to the surrounds where it belongs.