The speakers I'm using are DIY home made. 3-way tweeter>mid>dual 8" 8ohm woofers.

The woofers need some meat behind them but the tweeter and mid are easy enough to drive.

Since I intend to go balanced with the preamp and the active crossover is balanced, I would like to stay balanced with the amps as well(or what's the point).


Part of my attraction here is being able to drop one of my amps and just have two.

Just to make it clear I need 6channels for the main speakers 2 for the rears and one for the center. I have one rear center speaker as well but with the newer 7.1 format they require two of them so I think I can live without it. 5.1 seams to be fine enough for me anyways.

So, that's a total of 9 channels(possibly 10).

My main concern is inter channel distortion and when those dual woofer are sent a heavy bass note how will that effect the other channels with a multichannel amp?

Thanks,
Joe