I have a Bose acoustimass speaker system and have recently purchased JBL E80. I use regular Kenwood surrond receivers VR-505 for both the systems. I use monster cables and clean power. However I dont have the desired output. A friend suggested Marantz amps. Can someone give me suggestions on a decent model pleaseeee!!!
now that reciever is rated at 100w per channel at all of it's channels but probably only puts out say 50w a channel with all channels driven at the same time.
and yes a better reciever be it a marrantz/harmon kardon/pioneer elite or nad rated at say 100W per channel with all channels driven will definatly be cleaner and more power than you have now.
but! it may not make the difference you are looking for effiency in your speakers makes a much bigger difference than the power of your amp.
now the jbl's are 91 sensativity so they should perform well with a real 100watts and be plenty loud.
so yes if they are not very loud a newer quality reciever should give you what your looking for.
and out of the recivers i mentioned the ones that are the most conservativly rated would be the nad and harmon kardon.meaning that when they put the power ratings on their stuff it's usually putting out a little more than what they say.
now most of what i have said is generalization and could be made into a longer post with more details but this should point you in the right direction!