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Add a stereo amplifier or will an A/V receiver do
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I do the same thing as JamesD, with a slight extension. I have a pair of cheap unobtrusive speakers, Monitor Audio Vector V10s, on the speaker outs of the Denon AV-amp. There's certainly no comparison whatsoever with the big electrostats for serious music listening, but for normal, everyday TV use with typical low quality soundtracks they're adequate. This avoids the need to power up the 2-channel system and burn hours out the of finite lifespan of the panels in my electrostats when the source material doesn't really warrant it.

But I also have the front pre-outs running into an aux-in on the 2 channel system, so when a high-quality soundtrack is available on blu-ray or DVD, I can simply mute the V10s and set the 2-channel volume to a precalibrated fixed level and control the volume on the AV amp. The high-pass, time delay and room correction settings on the AV amp are all calibrated for the big speakers, not the small ones. 

The added benefit in this scenario is that with the bass management in the AV amp, the bulk of the bass goes directly to the subwoofer, rather than to the electrostats, meaning that they can be played at crazy cinema levels without their panel protection circuitry activating.
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Nice one guys. I wondered if something like this would be an option but wasn't sure... Glad to hear from more experienced ones.
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Hi guys,

Thank you all for your advice! I will certainly take it one step at a time and see what satisfaction that gives me, and if that will do (for now). I mean, I hope the Gram Amp 2 SE will already cause a pretty improvement. But the different solutions you have found out are certainly interesting, and something to slowly get my head around first :-) I guess I will indeed have to take my time, set my priorities, and know when I have reached a level of satisfaction that will suffice, at least for now.

Thanks again for making things clearer for me :-)
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My solution to an AV system that plays music well was to ditch an AV amp and get an AV pre-amp - in my case an Audiolab 8200AP which in AV terms is very basic, but built for good audio. A pair of Proprius handle the front channels, and because AV is rather a secondary function for me a little T-amp does the rear speakers (no centre speaker). Analogue inputs are set to "direct" to bypass any sound processing and the sub only operates in AV modes. The Proprius amps drive some PMC Gb1i speakers. Music sounds great, and actually AV is pretty awesome, as well as SACD/DVD-A multichannel.
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