Hi, I have a 2ch system that brings me joy when listening to music and I am thinking of adding HT to it.
My only source of movies and shows is a roku. My integrated amplifier has HT bypass so it will drive the front speakers (Salk Songtowers). My wife hates cables and there is no way to mask them up to the rear so I thought about the JBL-WEM-1 for the surround. Thus basically I need either a receiver that wil treat signal and only drive a center channel if I buy one later on, and I was thinking Emotiva UMC-200 or Outlaw 975.
But another option would be the Oppo BDP-103. I was not looking for a BDP but it has 2 HDMI in (I might add a Wii U) and can be use as a pre, also network able and read almost every format.
Anyone care to give some advice on my idea ?
Again perfectly happy with my music system (Creek Evo2 CDP and integrated Amp driving Salk Songtower) but would like to expand into reasonable HT. I have an old pair of BW DM102 that I plan to use for the surround. And maybe later on add a center channel, of course if I go with the Oppo then I'll also need a monoblock just for the center.