Mørbeck
New Member
Hey everyone
At the moment I have a Marantz 2230 powering a pair of Acoustic Research AR-4ax. Both are serviced and recapped and sound nicely. I am interested in stepping up the system's game by introducing a pre-amp. I was looking at a defected Luxman LV 113 amp today for a friend and since he had another amp lying around we tried bi-amping to overcome a left channel problem. The increase in sound quality was unbelievable. The amp was a Pioneer I believe and I don't remember the model, probably late 80s as the Luxman. Alone it had a terrible sound but pre-amped by the Luxman the sound completely changed.
So I am thinking to do the same for my system, the 2230 is rated only 30w per channel while the AR-4 100w. Some more power would be nice, my system isn't very loud especially in the phono section. So I think the best think to do would be to use the Marantz 2230 as a pre-amp and find a suitable amp. I am still a bit unsure on how much the amp will affect the sound quality, people say that this way I get to keep the warm sound of the 2230, but I guess the amp will also affect the sound of coming out of the pre. My investment so far has been 40€ for the speakers and 150€ for the amp, and I am trying to get the best value for price.
Any ideas?
At the moment I have a Marantz 2230 powering a pair of Acoustic Research AR-4ax. Both are serviced and recapped and sound nicely. I am interested in stepping up the system's game by introducing a pre-amp. I was looking at a defected Luxman LV 113 amp today for a friend and since he had another amp lying around we tried bi-amping to overcome a left channel problem. The increase in sound quality was unbelievable. The amp was a Pioneer I believe and I don't remember the model, probably late 80s as the Luxman. Alone it had a terrible sound but pre-amped by the Luxman the sound completely changed.
So I am thinking to do the same for my system, the 2230 is rated only 30w per channel while the AR-4 100w. Some more power would be nice, my system isn't very loud especially in the phono section. So I think the best think to do would be to use the Marantz 2230 as a pre-amp and find a suitable amp. I am still a bit unsure on how much the amp will affect the sound quality, people say that this way I get to keep the warm sound of the 2230, but I guess the amp will also affect the sound of coming out of the pre. My investment so far has been 40€ for the speakers and 150€ for the amp, and I am trying to get the best value for price.
Any ideas?
