Hello all. I currently have an original model 750 and I like it very much. But, I just bought a new condo and I think I am ready to finish building out my home theater. I currently (gasp) use an old receiver as a 2-channel amp to power my 6th and 7th channels, so that needs to go in favor of a real amp(s).

So, I am thinking either just add two 2200’s and be happy, or sell my 750 (will I get anything for it?) and buy 7 of the 2200’s? Certainly I would rather have the 7 2200’s but I don’t want to unload my 750 unless I will get at least some money for it. I currently use a Lexicon DC-1 for a processor, and I would like to upgrade that in the near future to an MC-8 (balanced) so having a full array of balanced amps would be a plus.

Other info: Speakers are currently three BAG END MM8’s across the front with an 18” BAG END infrasub as well, surrounds are a mixture of old Cambridge Sound Works and some B&W’s… Going to replace all of those with four BAG END M6 speakers.

Any thoughts? If I had a good buyer or even an attractive deal from Outlaw it would not take that much to sway me. Of course I could buy the two now anyways and get the rest later, but can’t do the package deal in that case. I could also look at the single 7-channel amps…maybe.

Jeff333

I'd probably recommend just adding a pair of M2200's - I did something similar a couple years ago and was very pleased with the results (the M200 review in my sig give some detals of that).

I'm actually in the process of selling my old 750 now after the original new home for it never materialized (got to get going on that) - the going rate for a used 750 is probably going to be in the $500 to $575 range on someplace like Audiogon. If you did sell the 750, you might actually be as well off or even slightly better off with a 7700 than a stack of M2200's - the 7500 has actually done a slightly better job than the M200's did with my Paradigm Studio 60's. It's certainly a subtle difference, but we're going to be talking about subtle differences any way you look at it in this case since all three of the amps under discussion (750, M2200, and 7700) are fine amps.

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

Hmm, if I could get $500+ for my amp I would probably go for it since I would like to switch to balanced. But, otherwise my 750 is not "broken". Maybe I will put it up and see how it does.

Thanks

Jeff333