Hello everyone,
Recently I've bought second hand Arcam AV860 processor.
I've made a decision to buy it as I've thought that the price was good and that I need some AVR or AV Processor to make my 5.1 home audio theater. At the moment I'm using only stereo speakers.
The other very important factor for me was Dirac Live and some idea which I've made in my head and now that's the question to all of you so maybe someone can answer this:
Is there any chance that Arcam AV860 with powered amps like Audiophonics Purifi x 5 monoblocks will have better SINAD than reviewed over here by @Amir Arcam AVR850 ?
I'm asking this because it looks like the whole Arcam AVR 550/850/860 series was the last quite acceptable series from Arcam when it comes to SINAD and the newest series from Arcam while reviewed bad over here still the Processor AV40 also reviewed over here have noticeably higher SINAD than AVR's from the newest Arcam series (AV10/AV20/AV30).
I can see that the Arcam AVR850 reviewed over here got more than 90 SINAD so maybe AV860 could be even higher than that overall ?
I know that only a real test done by @Amir can tell us the truth but still I'm curious that if AV40 have higher SINAD than other AVR's from the same series then maybe it could be the same with AV860 processor and AVR850/AVR550 too.
Anyone have any idea ? I'm very curious about your opinions about this so if you can jump in and leave something I would be grateful for that, thanks.
Sieniek
Recently I've bought second hand Arcam AV860 processor.
I've made a decision to buy it as I've thought that the price was good and that I need some AVR or AV Processor to make my 5.1 home audio theater. At the moment I'm using only stereo speakers.
The other very important factor for me was Dirac Live and some idea which I've made in my head and now that's the question to all of you so maybe someone can answer this:
Is there any chance that Arcam AV860 with powered amps like Audiophonics Purifi x 5 monoblocks will have better SINAD than reviewed over here by @Amir Arcam AVR850 ?
I'm asking this because it looks like the whole Arcam AVR 550/850/860 series was the last quite acceptable series from Arcam when it comes to SINAD and the newest series from Arcam while reviewed bad over here still the Processor AV40 also reviewed over here have noticeably higher SINAD than AVR's from the newest Arcam series (AV10/AV20/AV30).
I can see that the Arcam AVR850 reviewed over here got more than 90 SINAD so maybe AV860 could be even higher than that overall ?
I know that only a real test done by @Amir can tell us the truth but still I'm curious that if AV40 have higher SINAD than other AVR's from the same series then maybe it could be the same with AV860 processor and AVR850/AVR550 too.
Anyone have any idea ? I'm very curious about your opinions about this so if you can jump in and leave something I would be grateful for that, thanks.
Sieniek
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