AV amp or processor

rklpoon

No AV amp or processor for 3 months. Thee long-waited Emotiva UMC-1 is still having bugs. Don't want to spend too much on processor. Not much choice of processor other than Onkyo but still expensive for a new one like the 5507. So I am thinking of buying a AV amp to use as processor only. Choices in mind are the Onkyo 708, 808 or Yamaha 1067, 2067 0r 3067 (but they are not yet available and 9.1 or 9.2 channel is preferred since I have a 5 and a 2 channel power amps).  I once used the old Yamaha 1400 av amp as a pre-amp but found it was just as hot as using it as av amp. Is there any technical reason not good to use an av amp as a processor only?

chhanthony

有人講過, even你只用合併Amp pre-out出畀power amp
但合併Amp隻牛始終都會畀電去個speaker輸出度
相對會畀少O左電去合併amp嘅RCA pre-out輸出
而Processor就無呢個問題, 所以proceesor畀訊號去RCA/Balance會比合併Amp強
係真係假, 要自己find out