ahh I have to start off by saying I might actually go for a pair of ELAC UBR62 speakers instead of the LS50 Meta - as I'd be getting a much better deal on these... and was able to demo at home, so I know they worked well. I don't know if it's a mistake but I'm saving about 1000 euro on the deal... and they sound great to me. nice staging for movies. the amp however was way out of my budget... so hmm.
this looks very good - it does come out to just under 550 with taxes and shipping to here so that's within budget ish. I've only heard good things about the HypeX stuff.
not sure if I'm bad at searching/looking but does anyone happen to know whether it has Standby mode? and if so, is it automatic? so that I won't have to worry about it getting hot. because I read some HypeX stuff, power supply iirc? can get quite warm and not be good for longevity of the amplifier, if left on. but this is just what I've read, not been able to confirm. thank you!
I was considering this but was unable to find any measurements of the amplifier part of it - and price is quite high here... 2000 euro or so with the UMIK-1.
it would of course have served as the all-in-one, but I'd like some flexibility so the 600 euro Flex made more sense given the price differences.
appreciate the suggestion though!
dang, that's really a lot of power. I wonder if I'll ever reach 106 dB though. I listen quite low volume levels in general...
but I'll need to read up some more on how this all works, as I figure movies might have a lot more "dynamic range".
thank you everyone!