I'm contemplating getting better speakers. The speakers I want are harder to drive than my current speakers. I want to use these for both home theater and for listening to music. Technically, my AVR is rated at 100 watts per channel, for 2 channels, at 8 ohms, but we all know how accurate inexpensive AVR specs are... Anyway, what I'd like to know is can a person somehow have two sets of amps. An AVR for home theater/video game stuff and a separate amp and dac for 2 channel music, but use the same tower speakers and subs for both? Is there like a good switcher box or something that can be used to flip the connection between the AVR and the alternate amp being used for music?
Alternatively, do they make or what would I look for if I wanted a good amp for both home theater (multiple channels) and stereo, but that allowed me to use a seperate DAC? Do they make something like a DAC that can accept a bunch of HDMI inputs, but then just sends it all via one HDMI to a seperate power AMP? This way I could buy like one AMP and keep it for life and then just upgrade DACS every once in a while instead of getting a new low level AVR every five to ten years?
Or am I better off just getting the best AVR I can afford and using it for both home theater and music?
Thanks.
Alternatively, do they make or what would I look for if I wanted a good amp for both home theater (multiple channels) and stereo, but that allowed me to use a seperate DAC? Do they make something like a DAC that can accept a bunch of HDMI inputs, but then just sends it all via one HDMI to a seperate power AMP? This way I could buy like one AMP and keep it for life and then just upgrade DACS every once in a while instead of getting a new low level AVR every five to ten years?
Or am I better off just getting the best AVR I can afford and using it for both home theater and music?
Thanks.