We have been using our new receiver for about a week now. It is a Yamaha HTR 6160, (same as a 663). Before hooking it up, I needed to rearrange the living room. I wanted 6 good speakers to hook up to and a proper place to put them. I built a wooden shelf unit to hold the DVD's plus rear surrounds. I actually gutted a pair of small speakers I had in storage because they were toast. I refinished them and installed new 4" drivers as rear surrounds. As part of the same driver order I acquired two 3" drivers as well. I installed these in our Cerwin Vega D9's. The tweeters had failed in these a long time ago. It may have had something to do with a small child cranking the amp up full by accident.
I made sure to order additional cables, wire, banana plugs, etc. I methodically hooked it all up, taking care that everything was unplugged. I'm pretty sure all the speaker phasing is correct. Well it turned out to be plug and play, no smoke when I flipped the switch. Every day or so a new tweak or two gets handled.
Last evening, brother salvasol, mentioned in another thread, that he had taken the load off his receiver by connecting an additional amplifier. It just so happens I have our old amp sitting around, a 2 x 100 watt Yamaha. I had checked the heat emanating from the receiver a few times before, but did not really pay much attention. I decided to watch Transformers again, this time a bit louder, like at the theater. I did note significant heat exchange happening. It was in no way too much heat, but enough to think "hey why not share the load."
Today I connected the surround channels pre outs to the amp. This takes the load of two D9's off the receiver. Then to test I watched the Bourne Ultimatum, volume up. I'd say the receiver was 1/2 as warm. It really worked fine. The amp transformer is pretty big, the thing is heavy, and just warms up to a nice working temperature at 1/2 volume. I get to use the old gear and it looks cool to have more stuff running. It kind of suits my temperament too, a bit like cruising along with the V8 at 1,500 rpm. It might last longer than a 4 doing 2,500. (Don't flame me, I've had lots of 4's and like them too.) :surrender:
So thanks salvasol, you da man. :thumb:
I made sure to order additional cables, wire, banana plugs, etc. I methodically hooked it all up, taking care that everything was unplugged. I'm pretty sure all the speaker phasing is correct. Well it turned out to be plug and play, no smoke when I flipped the switch. Every day or so a new tweak or two gets handled.
Last evening, brother salvasol, mentioned in another thread, that he had taken the load off his receiver by connecting an additional amplifier. It just so happens I have our old amp sitting around, a 2 x 100 watt Yamaha. I had checked the heat emanating from the receiver a few times before, but did not really pay much attention. I decided to watch Transformers again, this time a bit louder, like at the theater. I did note significant heat exchange happening. It was in no way too much heat, but enough to think "hey why not share the load."
Today I connected the surround channels pre outs to the amp. This takes the load of two D9's off the receiver. Then to test I watched the Bourne Ultimatum, volume up. I'd say the receiver was 1/2 as warm. It really worked fine. The amp transformer is pretty big, the thing is heavy, and just warms up to a nice working temperature at 1/2 volume. I get to use the old gear and it looks cool to have more stuff running. It kind of suits my temperament too, a bit like cruising along with the V8 at 1,500 rpm. It might last longer than a 4 doing 2,500. (Don't flame me, I've had lots of 4's and like them too.) :surrender:
So thanks salvasol, you da man. :thumb: