Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Pretty good Review of the Integra 9.8

Being new to all of this, it sounds like you cannot use this unit w/o having an external amplifier. This unit would do all the video/audio processing and an external amplifier, um, amplifies the sound. Is that about right?

Yep...

Hence the name "Surround Sound Processor".

I don't know why they have such a huge transformer. Maybe it has to do with economics. Maybe they can get a big one for less cost than a smaller one. More likely, they did it to add weight to the unit so people can equate the weight with higher quality.

Thank you. Integra 9.8 + Axiom amp sounds like it may be a winner! I was thinking of upgrading my Marantz 8001 with Denon 3808 or Marantz 8002. Now, I may have to consider the above combo. I will never use the power, but *knowing* I can crank it up may be worth it!

The Integra 9.8 plus Axiom A1400-8 is the combo I'm excited about as well.

This is what it's all about.

Although this is silly, as both units are pretty much identical, performance wise, but I prefer the way the Onkyo Pro 885 looks.

I was going to go with the NAD T175and Axiom A1400, but NAD screwed the pooch as far as I'm concerned. They delayed production so that they could use the HDMI 1.3 hardware, but then they announced that the unit will not process anything other than Multi Channel PCM and the unit will not come with DTS:HD and DD-TruHD decoders. I do prefer that NAD has left the video processor out of the mix, but no advance audio decoding is ridiculous.

Now I'm just waiting and enjoying what I have, and plan to rob CV.

Ok, so now I need $1700 for the Integra, $3800 for the A1400-8 and $1100 for a sub, where the heck is that money tree?

Oh ya just got the first quote for kitchen cabinets, $10,000 - 12,000, depending on the quality of the cabinets we go with. I am not going to be able to get seperates, or anything else for that matter, any time soon.

I don't make a lot of money, but thankfully I'm in a position where I can have very skewed financial priorities. For the rest of you with funds being diverted into other more practical obligations, all I can do is wish you find sudden wealth.