Best 2 channel power amp to connect to my AVR

[gowmara]

I have Marantz nr1608 , I need to improve stereo performance (front speaker) by adding external power amp. Please suggest good cheap 2 channel power amp

 

[tuff]

How cheap? can you put a number? Also what speakers are you using it with?

 

[Deleted member 38504]

Best, good, cheap all don't gel well in the same sentence. You can get either or. A decent power amp, 2 channel will be more expensive than your NR1608. Except the crown. Which is cheap.

 

[gowmara]

I have Dali zensor 3. Plan to buy emotiva x100 (30k)

 

[tuff]

Do try to audition it with the same speakers. Make sure there is no 'hiss' coming from the tweeter..

 

[buxx]

Emotiva A-100 should cost you 23K odd.. 30K is net price for the slightly bigger A-150.

 

[Crank_shaft]

Dali Zensor 3 is a low sensitive Speaker. Marantz NR1608 itself would drive it well. Did you check the input source level. Also I would suggest good towers instead of a poweramp for Zensor 3.

 

[gowmara]

Actually my room is small, so only i am not looking for tower speaker.

 

[gowmara]

Do try to audition it with the same speakers. Make sure there is no 'hiss' coming from the tweeter..

Whether hiss is common during power amp addition. I don’t have option to demo. So need to understand more about it